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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. How was Louis XV related to Louis XIV?
(a) Son.
(b) Great grandson.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Grandson.

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

3. Upon meeting King Louis XV, Peter shocked the French by lifting him up and ___________.
(a) Holding, giving piggy-back rides.
(b) Tickling, singing to him.
(c) Hugging, kissing him.
(d) Tossing, catching him.

4. In Chapter 33, some 35,000 Swedes were against 57,500 Russians, with how many reinforcements respectively?
(a) 110,000, 70,000.
(b) 70,000, 110,000.
(c) 50,000, 90,000.
(d) 30,000, 70,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it that Peter's 1717 visit to France yielded no diplomatic fruit?

2. Which Councillor of State controlled French foreign policy because of the age of Louis XV?

3. In Chapter 32, the Russians torched Poland to deny Charles provisions and bridges, and accomplish what else?

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

5. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Peter respond to his Poltava triumph?

2. Why did Peter decide to focus his attention on the conquest of the upper Baltic?

3. Why did Peter seek to control Dorpat and Narva in 1704?

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

5. Peter quickly suffered dismay upon his return to St. Petersburg on October 11, 1717, for what reason?

6. St. Petersburg came about in what fashion?

7. What did Charles XII and his advance regiments find upon arrival at Baturin on November 11?

8. Peter gave orders as early as January, 1707, that directed what to be done to Poland?

9. Why did the author use the phrase "a place of carnage" to describe the battlefield at Poltava?

10. What sort of life did Catherine originate from?

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