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

2. In 1695, Peter attacked Azov, the Turkish fortress, to end Tatar raids in the Ukraine and gain access to which sea?

3. Leopold I promised not to relinquish gains Peter made at Azov, but he offered no assistance in gaining entry to which sea?

4. In what year did Peter first visit Archangel, Russia's only port near the Arctic Circle?

5. What title of Chapter 19 encapsulated Russian punishment methods?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Peter's Great Embassy amaze his countrymen?

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

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

4. How was Sophia overthrown?

5. How did King William find Peter shortly following his arrival in London?

6. What was Moscow like in Peter's youth?

7. Who was Russia's Fedor Golovin?

8. When Sophia became regent, what immediate test did she face?

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

10. Peter ventured into Holland with his Great Embassy for what purpose?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what manner did Martha Skavronskaya enter Peter's life? How did she rise from obscurity to eventually succeed to his post following his death?

Essay Topic 2

What was Tsar Peter's reaction to Mazeppa's treason?

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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