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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, On the European Stage, Chapters 40-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter was treated as an upstart monarch, but he behaved with decorum as he was eager to meet Leopold I, master of _____________.
(a) Southern Europe.
(b) Eastern Europe.
(c) Central Europe.
(d) All nations surrounding the Black Sea.

2. Following his stay in Adrianople, where did Charles XII race?
(a) To Pomerania.
(b) To Plath.
(c) To Pollnow.
(d) To Pyntz.

3. Chapter 35 showed the effects of which year's intense cold that gripped all of Europe?
(a) 1706.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1707.
(d) 1708.

4. Peter, unaware if St. Petersburg or Moscow was the goal of Charles XII, set for both and burned a swath how long from Smolensk to Pskov?
(a) 160 miles.
(b) 120 miles.
(c) 240 miles.
(d) 200 miles.

5. Charles XII ordered the Poles to join him, hoping who would aid him?
(a) Zaporozhsky and Crimean Cossacks.
(b) Zaporozhsky Cossacks, Crimean Tatars.
(c) Zaporozhsky and Crimean Tatars.
(d) Zaporozhsky Tatars, Crimean Cossacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Peter's son Alexis marry in Chapter 43?

2. Sweden, overextended at the peak of its power, ruled Estonia, Ingria, Finland, Karelia, Western Pomerania, Livonia, and ports near what location?

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

4. During the period when Peter built a warship, endangered himself with war games and fireworks, and ignored the Kremlin, what almost took his life?

5. Whom did Peter tax after his eventual triumph at Azov?

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