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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ivan and Peter were crowned as co-tsars, Sophia took over as __________.
(a) Governor.
(b) Princess.
(c) Regent.
(d) Queen.

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

3. At what age did Peter lose his father?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

4. What happened to Sophia after her inner circle was tortured and Peter refused to see her?
(a) She was forced to see the torture and execution of her inner circle.
(b) She was banished to Golitsyn's place of exile.
(c) She was executed.
(d) She was sent for life to Novodevichy Convent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?

3. Peter won over the Patriarch, threatened to kill any who opposed him, and then commanded all foreign officers to do what?

4. While he maintained his devotion to Orthodoxy, Peter investigated Anglicanism and was fascinated by which denomination?

5. In Chapter 3, who was Sophia?

(see the answer key)

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