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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. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?
3. For how many years was Anna Mons the mistress of Peter?
4. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.
5. Sophia surveyed the plight of women in 17th-century Russia and ______________in particular.
Short Essay Questions
1. How did King William find Peter shortly following his arrival in London?
2. When he came to power, what was the confrontation Charles XII faced with Peter?
3. How did Sophia attempt to ensure that her brief state of thriving during Fedor's time continued following his death?
4. What was the astonishing test Peter applied to the welcome which noblemen offered him when he returned from the Great Embassy tour?
5. What were some of the problems Peter found taking place in the shipyards at Voronezh when he returned from his Embassy tour?
6. Who did Peter meet when his Embassy came to an end unexpectedly, and he headed home?
7. What was the youth of Charles XII of Sweden like?
8. What were Peter's distinguishing physical characteristics when he was age 22?
9. What were some ways Peter treated Anna Mons differently after he returned from his Great Embassy tour?
10. What took place for Peter on his initial trip to Archangel in 1693?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When at dinner among Tsar Peter's lieutenants and friends in 1717, what was Prince Jacob Dolgoruky's response when Peter asked the seventy-eight year old how he compared the accomplishments of Tsar Alexis with those of Peter?
Essay Topic 2
Why was Charles XII no longer welcome in the Sublime Court toward the end of 1713? What plot developed out of the decision to send Charles back home, via one means or another? What was the outcome of this scheme?
Essay Topic 3
How was it St. Petersburg came to be?
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