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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. Much of Charles XII's infantry wasted time on Peter's redoubts and was _________.
(a) Out of area where main battle transpires.
(b) Out of position for the main battle.
(c) Out of gunpowder for the main battle.
(d) Out of time for the main battle.

2. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?
(a) Britain, Denmark, Finland, Karelia, Prussia.
(b) Denmark, France, Livonia, Netherlands, Western Poland.
(c) Britain, Estonia, France, Ingria, Netherlands.
(d) Britain, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Prussia.

3. Peter was heading home via which city when he met Prussia's King Frederick I and his son Frederick William?
(a) Bremen.
(b) Bremerhauen.
(c) Belzig.
(d) Berlin.

4. Catherine first married Peter quietly in _______, and later, with full pomp in ________.
(a) 1707, 1708.
(b) 1709, 1710.
(c) 1711, 1712.
(d) 1705, 1706.

5. Charles XII hoped to ally with Hetman Mazeppa, the Cossack who had been waiting for an opportunity to win independence for ___________.
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Forty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unable to fight with Sweden or Britain in new "ship-of-the-line" warships, what did Peter build that could sail close to shore and swarm larger ships?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 29, where were open rebellions by Streltsy repressed?

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

5. While retaining the Baltic lands, what did Peter allow them to keep?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. St. Petersburg came about in what fashion?

3. Why did Peter never have to simultaneously fight two enemies?

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

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

6. How did Peter respond to his Poltava triumph?

7. What sort of effect did the arrival of Charles XII in Germany have?

8. Why did the Turkish Sultan want to send Charles XII home?

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

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

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