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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were some ways Peter broke tradition beyond freeing himself of Eudoxia, shaving nobles' beards, and using decorations in lieu of land as rewards?
(a) Offering land in exchange for military service.
(b) Reforming the calendar and currency.
(c) Reforming Russian feudal system.
(d) Affording peasants, not serfs, voting rights.

2. Whom did Peter tax after his eventual triumph at Azov?
(a) Merchants, landowners.
(b) Landowners, commoners.
(c) Landowners, the church.
(d) The church, merchants.

3. How long did Peter send the "Great Embassy" to Europe to recruit and study?
(a) Twenty-four months.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) Thirty months.
(d) Twelve months.

4. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?
(a) Mourned, cried publicly.
(b) Mourned, raged publicly.
(c) Mourned, prayed privately.
(d) Mourned, chanted publicly.

5. Peter's passion for sailing began when he and his tutor found, refurbished, and took a boat out on what lake?
(a) Pavlovsk.
(b) Pleschev.
(c) Preobrazhenskoe.
(d) Pervomaysk.

6. The Streltsy mobilized against rumors that Peter would kill whom in Chapter 8?
(a) Prince Golitsyn, Ivan.
(b) Sophia, Prince Golitsyn.
(c) Sophia, Eudoxia.
(d) Ivan, Sophia.

7. Who was the King of Poland that Peter met en route home?
(a) Heinrich I.
(b) Augustus I.
(c) Wilhelm.
(d) Augustus II.

8. When Fedor died in 1682 without an heir, the choice was between Peter and ____________.
(a) Fedor's healthy brother, Ivan.
(b) Fedor's healthy cousin, Ivan.
(c) Fedor's physically-challenged cousin, Ivan.
(d) Fedor's physically-challenged brother, Ivan.

9. As many fundamentalists rallied behind Archpriest Avvakum, where did others populate?
(a) The far west.
(b) The far north.
(c) The far east.
(d) The far south.

10. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?
(a) "Imbibing Crewmen" and "Happy Swordsmen."
(b) "Jolly Company" and "Drunken Synod."
(c) "Merry Helmsmen" and "Roistering Angels."
(d) "Jolly Muskateers" and "Laughing Bandits."

11. Charles XII broke traditions, proved rash in using disciplined troops, and forced battles. How long did it take for Russia to stand up to him?
(a) Several decades.
(b) Years.
(c) Months.
(d) Weeks.

12. In Chapter 12, Peter felt the need to shore up a dying anti-Turkish alliance and European worries grew regarding whose ambitions?
(a) Charles CI.
(b) Louis XIV.
(c) Mary II.
(d) Philip IV.

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

14. Peter dealt grimly with the Streltsy after they marched _____________ to replace the absent Tsar.
(a) On Preobrazhenskoe.
(b) On Semyonovskoe.
(c) On Moscow.
(d) On Archangel.

15. How long did it take to build the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul by hand?
(a) Fifteen months.
(b) Twenty months.
(c) Five months.
(d) Ten months.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what year did Muscovy's soldiers believe Sophia's rumors of treachery?

2. "Great Embassy" member in Russia felt that Europeans who embraced music, art, literature, and science were _________.

3. After serfs and peasants were drafted by the thousands for unskilled shipbuilding labor, what work moved swiftly despite what?

4. After invading the Kremlin, for how many days did Muscovy's soldiers kill boyars?

5. Golitsyn was responsible for what foreign policy highpoint of the Regency?

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