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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, On the European Stage, Chapters 40-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 45 showed Charles XII held in Adrianople for how long while Turkey and Russia concluded peace?
(a) Sixteen months.
(b) Twelve months.
(c) Twenty months.
(d) Eight months.

2. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.
(a) Bernhard Victor Schmidt.
(b) Georg-Johann Korb.
(c) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
(d) Johann-Georg Korb.

3. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?
(a) One failed and one victorious campaigns.
(b) Two failed campaigns.
(c) One failed campaign.
(d) One victorious campaign.

4. When was Peter born?
(a) August 30, 1672.
(b) June 30, 1672.
(c) April 30, 1672.
(d) May 30, 1672.

5. The new army under Sheremetev used artillery rebuilt from scratch using melted down iron from _______.
(a) Church bells.
(b) Old cannons.
(c) Cemetery and church gates.
(d) Tools, farming implements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Largely due to Peter Tolstoy's diplomacy, which group remained out of the Northern War?

2. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?

3. What injury lay Charles XII up nearly dead from infection?

4. Although Mazeppa had run into his arms, why was Charles XII desperate?

5. Where did Peter build an outpost that grew into the Kronstadt naval base?

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