View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After how long did Peter bid the Regent and King farewell?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Eight weeks.
(d) Ten weeks.

2. Entering Peter's world through Lefort, how did Massie describe Alexander Menshikov in Chapter 28?
(a) Educated, calculating, fearless.
(b) Talented, greedy, dangerous.
(c) Fearless, edutated, dangerous.
(d) Calculating, greedy, talented.

3. Charles XII went home to Sweden only after he took Danish Rügen. How many years had passed?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eighteen.

4. Chapter 45 showed Charles XII held in Adrianople for how long while Turkey and Russia concluded peace?
(a) Sixteen months.
(b) Eight months.
(c) Twenty months.
(d) Twelve months.

5. After being cornered, what areas did Peter abandon that resulted in his survival and making peace with Charles XII?
(a) Azov, Poland, Slovakia.
(b) Poland, Slovakia, Tagonrog.
(c) Azov, Poland, Tagonrog.
(d) Azov, Slovakia, Tagonrog.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Peter ordered the fortress at Grodno abandoned, Charles XII was freed to invade what region?

2. Whom did Peter's son Alexis marry in Chapter 43?

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

4. Catherine first married Peter quietly in _______, and later, with full pomp in ________.

5. In what location were Alexis and Afrosinia initially hidden by Emperor Charles VI?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Peter respond to his Poltava triumph?

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

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

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

10. What did Chapter 42, "Fifty Blows on the Pruth," take its title from?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,033 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample