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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Old Muscovy, Chapters 7-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter was shown in Chapter 6 as having preferred activities out of the way at _______________.
(a) Pitkyaranta.
(b) Petrozavodsk.
(c) Preobrazhenskoe.
(d) Pavlovsky Posad.

2. The Streltsy mobilized against rumors that Peter would kill whom in Chapter 8?
(a) Ivan, Sophia.
(b) Prince Golitsyn, Ivan.
(c) Sophia, Eudoxia.
(d) Sophia, Prince Golitsyn.

3. For how many years was Anna Mons the mistress of Peter?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

4. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?
(a) One failed campaign.
(b) One failed and one victorious campaigns.
(c) Two failed campaigns.
(d) One victorious campaign.

5. Eudoxia Lopukhina bore Peter __________ before they were estranged.
(a) Twin sons.
(b) A son and a daughter.
(c) A son.
(d) A daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?

2. During what year did Muscovy's soldiers believe Sophia's rumors of treachery?

3. Sophia surveyed the plight of women in 17th-century Russia and ______________in particular.

4. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?

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

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