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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, On the European Stage, Chapters 48-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?
(a) Prime minister, cultural counselor.
(b) Chief advisor, principle minister.
(c) Defense minister, political advisor.
(d) Financial advisor, religious minister.

2. "Great Embassy" member in Russia felt that Europeans who embraced music, art, literature, and science were _________.
(a) "Heretics."
(b) "Agnostics."
(c) "Iconoclasts."
(d) "Pagans."

3. In Chapter 9, Peter was shown enjoying his freedom for how many more years?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. Peter had ten redoubts built in what formation, that slowed enemy attacks?
(a) "M."
(b) "W."
(c) "V."
(d) "T."

5. Catherine first married Peter quietly in _______, and later, with full pomp in ________.
(a) 1711, 1712.
(b) 1705, 1706.
(c) 1707, 1708.
(d) 1709, 1710.

Short Answer Questions

1. Russia captured Riga and _________.

2. In 1695, Peter attacked Azov, the Turkish fortress, to end Tatar raids in the Ukraine and gain access to which sea?

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

4. Charles XII hoped to ally with Hetman Mazeppa, the Cossack who had been waiting for an opportunity to win independence for ___________.

5. Peter was humiliated across Europe when Swedes broke through what type of defenses that the Russians built at Narva?

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