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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The fifty blows mentioned in the title of Chapter 42 were only half the number Peter deserved for risking capture at what location?
(a) Pruth River.
(b) Fortress Pruth.
(c) Frigate Pruth.
(d) City of Pruth.

2. In Chapter 32, the Russians torched Poland to deny Charles provisions and bridges, and accomplish what else?
(a) Insert blockades.
(b) Position cannons across rivers.
(c) Recruit additional forces.
(d) Draft new forces.

3. According to Chapter 29, what positive improvements were part of Peter's reign?
(a) Condition of women, language education, a newspaper.
(b) Condition of deformed infants, tax reform, theater.
(c) Condition of elderly, medical developments, theater.
(d) Condition of foreigners, technical education, public housing.

4. Which new fleet did Peter use in Chapter 44?
(a) Barents.
(b) Baltic.
(c) Northern.
(d) Flying.

5. The rulers of which two Christian principalities secretly agreed to help in fighting Turkey?
(a) Lithuania, Moldavia.
(b) Mongolia, Lithuania.
(c) Moldavia, Walachia,
(d) Mongolia, Walachia,

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

7. What transpired after a broken Alexis was condemned to death?
(a) Escaped custody, returned to exile.
(b) Publicly admitted guilt, was forgiven.
(c) Died before sentence is administered.
(d) Sentence commuted, exiled to monastery.

8. 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 II hated Peter.
(b) Councillor of State was set to ally with England, George I hated Peter.
(c) Regent were set to ally with England, George II hated Peter.
(d) Regent were set to ally with England, George I hated Peter.

9. Charles XII went home to Sweden only after he took Danish Rügen. How many years had passed?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Fifteen.

10. In what year did Martha Skavronskaya, Peter's wife, begin bearing his children?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1711.
(c) 1705.
(d) 1707.

11. Who told Alexis that surrendering was his only way of marrying Afrosina?
(a) Ivan Tsykler.
(b) Jacob Turgenev.
(c) Peter Tolstoy.
(d) Franz Timmermann.

12. Peter's westward travels in 1716-1717 had the following three goals: to recover his health, to attend his niece's wedding, and to __________.
(a) Boost allies' support of the invasion of England.
(b) Boost allies' support of the invasion of Spain.
(c) Boost allies' support of the invasion of Sweden.
(d) Boost allies' support of the invasion of Denmark.

13. Seeking to restore old Moscow, Charles XII takes a direct thrust at Russia's heart rather than first restoring which sea?
(a) Dead Sea.
(b) Red Sea.
(c) Baltic Sea.
(d) Mediterranean Sea.

14. Following his stay in Adrianople, where did Charles XII race?
(a) To Pyntz.
(b) To Pollnow.
(c) To Pomerania.
(d) To Plath.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Peter's meddling with Ahmed's restive subjects in ______was covered in Chapter 41.

3. In Chapter 33, some 35,000 Swedes were against 57,500 Russians, with how many reinforcements respectively?

4. Upon meeting King Louis XV, Peter shocked the French by lifting him up and ___________.

5. When Afrosina provided proof of treason, what did Peter do?

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