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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "Great Embassy" ended abruptly before a trip to ________________because word came that the Streltsy were rebelling?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Venice.
(d) Warsaw.

2. Peter was concerned by the loss at Narva, but he spared nothing to outfit and train his new army under whom?
(a) Alexis Sheremetev.
(b) Boris Sheremetev.
(c) Brutus Sheremetev.
(d) Markus Sheremetev.

3. Peter himself went incognito among the 250-member staff as whom?
(a) Peter Voznitsyn.
(b) Peter Mikhailov.
(c) Peter Makarov.
(d) Peter Golovin.

4. When Ivan and Peter were crowned as co-tsars, Sophia took over as __________.
(a) Queen.
(b) Princess.
(c) Governor.
(d) Regent.

5. Patriarch Nikon, who challenged Alexis and sternly enforced his own views, was deposed in what year?
(a) 1666.
(b) 1660.
(c) 1662.
(d) 1664.

6. At what age did Peter lose his father?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

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

8. When Peter lived openly in the German suburb among foreigners, which three important friends did he make?
(a) Patrick Gordon, Andrew Vinius, Francis Lefort.
(b) Sylvester Medvedev, Alexander Danilovich, Francis Lefort.
(c) Andrew Vinius, Louis de Vauban, Patrick Gordon.
(d) Sylvester Medvedev, Louis de Vauban, Alexander Danilovich.

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

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

11. Martha Skavronskaya, a peasant girl Sheremetev captured, later became Peter's wife and successor as _________.
(a) Catherine II.
(b) Martha I.
(c) Martha II.
(d) Catherine I.

12. Seventeenth century European wars were shown to be steadily growing in deadliness and scope, yet what rules were they still obeying?
(a) Afternoon tea sessions.
(b) Use of catapults, horses, caissons.
(c) Seasonal campaigning.
(d) Use of shields, swords, spears.

13. From Voronezh where he displayed power and obtained a treaty with the Turks when Baltic fighting started, Peter set out to reclaim what?
(a) Estonia, Livonia.
(b) Estonia, Karelia.
(c) Karelia, Ingria.
(d) Livonia, Ingria.

14. Peter was shown in Chapter 6 as having preferred activities out of the way at _______________.
(a) Pitkyaranta.
(b) Pavlovsky Posad.
(c) Petrozavodsk.
(d) Preobrazhenskoe.

15. During what year did Muscovy's soldiers believe Sophia's rumors of treachery?
(a) 1682.
(b) 1686.
(c) 1680.
(d) 16864.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?

2. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?

3. 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?

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

5. As many fundamentalists rallied behind Archpriest Avvakum, where did others populate?

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