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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. Which vast Ottoman Empire situation was surveyed in Chapter 40?

2. Peter was able to launch a disciplined infantry line which enveloped ________/

3. In what location were Alexis and Afrosinia initially hidden by Emperor Charles VI?

4. Peter's meddling with Ahmed's restive subjects in ______was covered in Chapter 41.

5. What transpired after a broken Alexis was condemned to death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Throughout Peter's reign, why was he seen as constantly moving?

2. What sort of effect did the arrival of Charles XII in Germany have?

3. Why did the Turkish Sultan want to send Charles XII home?

4. Why did Peter decide to focus his attention on the conquest of the upper Baltic?

5. How did Peter compare with his son, Alexis?

6. What sort of life did Catherine originate from?

7. Why did the author use the phrase "a place of carnage" to describe the battlefield at Poltava?

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

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

10. In Chapter 33, what did the author describe Charles XII and Peter as having done in the early summer months?

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

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 3

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?

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