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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. After his mother died, Peter returned to Archangel, launched a ship, almost drowned on another, and took delivery and command of a warship built where?
(a) Holland.
(b) Finland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Poland.

2. What injury lay Charles XII up nearly dead from infection?
(a) Shot.
(b) Cut.
(c) Horse fall.
(d) Burn.

3. William III was not ready when he met Peter during the "Great Embassy" to ally against which group?
(a) Swedes.
(b) Turks.
(c) Poles.
(d) Greeks.

4. Peter in 1704 seized Narva and Dorpat to protect _______and restore the army's honor.
(a) .Nizhny Novgorod.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Novosibirsk
(d) St. Petersburg.

5. Tsar Alexis is described as what type of ruler?
(a) Monarch.
(b) Demigod.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?

2. How long did Peter work at the Dutch company to learn his trade?

3. Peter was shown in Chapter 29 as an autocrat over the vast country which he divided into how many governorships?

4. Patkul, an anti-Swede from __________, stirred Peter and Augustus to action against Charles XII?

5. Entering Peter's world through Lefort, how did Massie describe Alexander Menshikov in Chapter 28?

(see the answer key)

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