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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. Chapter 37 described a clash that was most effective because of Rehnskjold's failure to share what with fellow generals?
(a) Reinforcements.
(b) Gunpowder.
(c) Battle plans.
(d) Food supplies.

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

3. In what location were Alexis and Afrosinia initially hidden by Emperor Charles VI?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Tyrol.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Slovokia.

4. Peter engaged which philosopher to oversee administrative, educational, and legal reforms?
(a) Gottfried von Leibniz.
(b) Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.
(c) Francis Lefort.
(d) Stanislaus Lesczynski.

5. When Afrosina provided proof of treason, what did Peter do?
(a) Set canonic, temporal trials and banished Alexis to a monastery.
(b) Ordained the religious and beheaded Alexis.
(c) Prescribed collective trials, and sanctioned the death penalty.
(d) Ordered ecclesiastic, secular trials and sanctioned torture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 38, the Swedes were entrapped, and they convinced Charles XII to flee to what territory?

2. In what year did Martha Skavronskaya, Peter's wife, begin bearing his children?

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

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

5. Where did Alexis finally seek asylum after originally being ordered by Peter to go to Copenhagen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the reign of Louis XIV of France compare with Peter's of Russia?

5. Given England's 100-ship Royal Navy, why did the Baltic powers have relatively smaller fleets?

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

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

8. How did Peter compare with his son, Alexis?

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

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

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