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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter was concerned by the loss at Narva, but he spared nothing to outfit and train his new army under whom?

2. Upset by Sophia, whom did the boyars rally around?

3. Sophia surveyed the plight of women in 17th-century Russia and ______________in particular.

4. Seventeenth century European wars were shown to be steadily growing in deadliness and scope, yet what rules were they still obeying?

5. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Peter anxious to meet King William of England in Holland?

2. What significant affairs transpired during Sophia's reign?

3. What were some of the problems Peter found taking place in the shipyards at Voronezh when he returned from his Embassy tour?

4. Why was Peter unsuccessful in gaining an ally against the Turks when he met Leopold I?

5. What were Peter's distinguishing physical characteristics when he was age 22?

6. What took place for Peter on his initial trip to Archangel in 1693?

7. Why did Peter select the location he did for St. Petersburg?

8. What intentional humiliations did former elite troops that comprised old Muscovite armies sustain following Sophia's downfall?

9. When he came to power, what was the confrontation Charles XII faced with Peter?

10. Who was Russia's Fedor Golovin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the description of Peter's later years at court while in St. Petersburg given by Ambassador Frederich Christian Weber of Hanover compare with that of court life twenty years prior in Moscow presented by Johann-Georg Korb, secretary to a visiting Austrian ambassador?

Essay Topic 2

What significance did Andrew Vinius, Patrick Gordon, Francis Lefort, and the Jolly Company have in Peter's life?

Essay Topic 3

What was a visitor to Paris in 1717 likely to have seen? What was on the list Peter compiled of all he desired to look at and accomplish on his second historic trip to the West? How successful was his visit?

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