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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The Great Northern War, Chapters 22-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Johann-Georg Korb.
(c) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
(d) Bernhard Victor Schmidt.

2. Sweden, overextended at the peak of its power, ruled Estonia, Ingria, Finland, Karelia, Western Pomerania, Livonia, and ports near what location?
(a) England.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Spain.
(d) Croatia.

3. "Great Embassy" member in Russia felt that Europeans who embraced music, art, literature, and science were _________.
(a) "Iconoclasts."
(b) "Pagans."
(c) "Heretics."
(d) "Agnostics."

4. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?
(a) The 1660s.
(b) The 1670s.
(c) The 1680s.
(d) The 1650s.

5. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?
(a) Amserdam Shipping Company.
(b) East India Company.
(c) Netherlands Nautical, Ltd.
(d) Rotterdam Naval Shipyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. From Voronezh where he displayed power and obtained a treaty with the Turks when Baltic fighting started, Peter set out to reclaim what?

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

3. What happened to Peter's great fleet when he sent an envoy on the first Russian warship to enter the Black Sea?

4. Peter evaded an anti-Swedish alliance in Prussia to concentrate on whom?

5. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?

(see the answer key)

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