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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. In what year did Peter first visit Archangel, Russia's only port near the Arctic Circle?
2. Sophia surveyed the plight of women in 17th-century Russia and ______________in particular.
3. What observation could be made about Peter given that he enjoyed Mock-Synod celebrations at Christmas and before Lent, stood with troops rather than the Patriarch at Epiphany when the Moscow River is blessed, and ended executions with bodies being buried as Lent begins?
4. William III was not ready when he met Peter during the "Great Embassy" to ally against which group?
5. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?
Short Essay Questions
1. When he came to power, what was the confrontation Charles XII faced with Peter?
2. How did King William find Peter shortly following his arrival in London?
3. Why was Peter anxious to meet King William of England in Holland?
4. Who did Peter meet when his Embassy came to an end unexpectedly, and he headed home?
5. What was Moscow like in Peter's youth?
6. Who was Russia's Fedor Golovin?
7. How did the author describe London in the era Peter visited?
8. What was the youth of Charles XII of Sweden like?
9. What was the astonishing test Peter applied to the welcome which noblemen offered him when he returned from the Great Embassy tour?
10. What battle did Peter decide to engage in at age 22?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss why Peter failed in his initial attack on Azov, but he was successful in a subsequent assault? In what manner did this affect his status in Russia and in Europe?
Essay Topic 2
Since Peter knew Charles XII fully intended to lead his army across Poland to invade Russia, what measures of defense did he undertake?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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