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

2. Despite people's pleas, Charles XII vowed to make which group join him or face annihilation?
(a) Poles.
(b) Finns.
(c) Livonians.
(d) Western Pomeranians.

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

4. Why was it that Peter's 1717 visit to France yielded no diplomatic fruit?
(a) Councillor of State was set to ally with England, George I hated Peter.
(b) Councillor of State was set to ally with England, George II hated Peter.
(c) Regent were set to ally with England, George I hated Peter.
(d) Regent were set to ally with England, George II hated Peter.

5. Russia captured Riga and _________.
(a) Vyksa.
(b) Vysokovsk.
(c) Vyborg,
(d) Vysotsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles XII launch his surprise campaign against Narva?

2. Peter was concerned by the loss at Narva, but he spared nothing to outfit and train his new army under whom?

3. The Streltsy mobilized against rumors that Peter would kill whom in Chapter 8?

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

5. The rulers of which two Christian principalities secretly agreed to help in fighting Turkey?

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