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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Golitsyn was responsible for what foreign policy highpoint of the Regency?
(a) Return of Kiev to Russian control.
(b) Return of Kazan to Russian control.
(c) Return of Moscow to Russian control.
(d) Return of Perm to Russian control.

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

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

4. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?
(a) Netherlands Nautical, Ltd.
(b) Rotterdam Naval Shipyard.
(c) East India Company.
(d) Amserdam Shipping Company.

5. Frederick of Denmark dropped out of the conflict following what?
(a) Totally bloodless campaign.
(b) Near annihilation.
(c) Nearly bloodless campaign.
(d) Very bloody campaign.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seventeenth century European wars were shown to be steadily growing in deadliness and scope, yet what rules were they still obeying?

2. Peter won over the Patriarch, threatened to kill any who opposed him, and then commanded all foreign officers to do what?

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

4. When did the founding of St. Petersburg transpire?

5. Martha Skavronskaya, a peasant girl Sheremetev captured, later became Peter's wife and successor as _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What activities did Peter prefer to state ceremonies during Sophia's reign?

2. How did King William find Peter shortly following his arrival in London?

3. What intentional humiliations did former elite troops that comprised old Muscovite armies sustain following Sophia's downfall?

4. What were some ways Peter treated Anna Mons differently after he returned from his Great Embassy tour?

5. What was Peter's response following his initial defeat against Charles XII?

6. What were Peter's distinguishing physical characteristics when he was age 22?

7. According to Chapter 9, what did Peter find in the German Suburb?

8. Who was Russia's Fedor Golovin?

9. Peter ventured into Holland with his Great Embassy for what purpose?

10. How did the author describe London in the era Peter visited?

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