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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. With Severia lost, where did Charles XII go?
(a) Slovakia.
(b) Lithuania.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Belarus.

2. 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) City of Pruth.
(d) Frigate Pruth.

3. In Chapter 29, where were open rebellions by Streltsy repressed?
(a) Astrakhan, Bashkirs, Lipetsk.
(b) Bashkirs, Don Cossacks, Lipetsk.
(c) Astrakhan, Don Cossacks, Lipetsk.
(d) Astrakhan, Bashkirs, Don Cossacks.

4. Where did Charles XII flee as Peter made his first disciplined infantry launch?
(a) Royal asylum.
(b) Catholic asylum.
(c) Tatar asylum.
(d) Cossack asylum.

5. General Lewenhaupt was sent for a massive quantity of supplies, but his effort bogged down and cost the campaign of Charles XII how much time?
(a) Nearly a year.
(b) Days.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Months.

Short Answer Questions

1. While his people yearned for peace, Charles XII drafted new troops, raised taxes, and was aided by Baron Georg Heinrich von Goertz in becoming what?

2. Protestants sought to keep Charles XII apart from whom?

3. Peter engaged which philosopher to oversee administrative, educational, and legal reforms?

4. How soon after Goertz went to Charles XII about having negotiated with Norway without authorization did Charles die?

5. What transpired after a broken Alexis was condemned to death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some ways Peter's second historic journey into the West differed from his first?

2. What sort of life did Catherine originate from?

3. Throughout Peter's reign, why was he seen as constantly moving?

4. What was Peter's response when he learned of the death of Charles XII?

5. What did Alexis do on the evening of November 10, 1716?

6. In Chapter 33, what did the author describe Charles XII and Peter as having done in the early summer months?

7. Why did Charles XII turn south in mid-September and send General Anders Lagercrona's vanguard ahead?

8. Why was it Russia appeared to have significantly deteriorated in comparison to Sweden in the spring of 1720?

9. What took place in the Great Audience Hall in Moscow on February 3, 1718?

10. How did Peter respond to his Poltava triumph?

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