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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 Chapter 51, Peter came home to handle a governmental mess and confront Tsarevich Alexis about his _________.

2. Chapter 37 described a clash that was most effective because of Rehnskjold's failure to share what with fellow generals?

3. Avoiding open warfare in Poland, where did the Russians retreat to?

4. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?

5. Peter had ten redoubts built in what formation, that slowed enemy attacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of life did Catherine originate from?

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

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

4. Why did Peter seek to control Dorpat and Narva in 1704?

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

6. How did the reign of Louis XIV of France compare with Peter's of Russia?

7. Peter gave orders as early as January, 1707, that directed what to be done to Poland?

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

9. What did Chapter 42, "Fifty Blows on the Pruth," take its title from?

10. Why was it Russia appeared to have significantly deteriorated in comparison to Sweden in the spring of 1720?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Peter noted that a lone foreigner was capable of dispatching more affairs during a single morning than a house of his senators could accomplish in a month. What was the Tsar's day typically like when he was in St. Petersburg?

Essay Topic 3

What often mortifying physical disorder began to afflict Peter in the prime of his early manhood?

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