View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 17-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Patriarch Nikon, who challenged Alexis and sternly enforced his own views, was deposed in what year?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1666.
(c) 1662.
(d) 1660.

2. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.
(a) Georg-Johann Korb.
(b) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
(c) Bernhard Victor Schmidt.
(d) Johann-Georg Korb.

3. Who was the King of Poland that Peter met en route home?
(a) Heinrich I.
(b) Augustus II.
(c) Augustus I.
(d) Wilhelm.

4. Who kept order as Peter embarked on the "Great Embassy"?
(a) Romodanovsky.
(b) Nikolaevna.
(c) Streltsy.
(d) Novodevichy.

5. Upset by Sophia, whom did the boyars rally around?
(a) The Nerchinks.
(b) The Natalyas.
(c) The Nesterovs.
(d) The Naryshkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Golitsyn was responsible for what foreign policy highpoint of the Regency?

2. Which friend did Peter bury In March, 1699?

3. When Fedor died in 1682 without an heir, the choice was between Peter and ____________.

4. The King of Poland convinced Peter to undertake a joint war against which nation?

5. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 224 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample