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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. Due to the French monarch's age, who served as Regent for Louis XV?
(a) Anthony Devier.
(b) Abbé Guillaume Duboi.
(c) Philippe, Duc d'Orléans.
(d) Charles Eugene, Duc Du Croy.

2. Where did Alexis finally seek asylum after originally being ordered by Peter to go to Copenhagen?
(a) Austria.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Prussia.
(d) Hungary.

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

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

5. Largely due to Peter Tolstoy's diplomacy, which group remained out of the Northern War?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Russia.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Turks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which new fleet did Peter use in Chapter 44?

2. St. Petersburg expanded from Petrograd Island onto the mainland, then downstream to where?

3. The fifty blows mentioned in the title of Chapter 42 were only half the number Peter deserved for risking capture at what location?

4. 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?

5. Entering Peter's world through Lefort, how did Massie describe Alexander Menshikov in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What sort of life did Catherine originate from?

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

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

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

10. What did Charles XII propose to his senior officers the day prior to the battle at Poltava in June, 1709?

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