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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Charles XII was led into a trap, what did he and his troops lose?
(a) Safe retreat.
(b) Dry gunpowder.
(c) Food rations.
(d) Warm quarters.

2. Peter was heading home via which city when he met Prussia's King Frederick I and his son Frederick William?
(a) Bremerhauen.
(b) Belzig.
(c) Bremen.
(d) Berlin.

3. Peter was able to launch a disciplined infantry line which enveloped ________/
(a) Charging Swedes.
(b) Retreating Swedes.
(c) Counter-striking Swedes.
(d) Fleeing Swedes.

4. Seeking to restore old Moscow, Charles XII takes a direct thrust at Russia's heart rather than first restoring which sea?
(a) Red Sea.
(b) Baltic Sea.
(c) Dead Sea.
(d) Mediterranean Sea.

5. Chapter 36 brought spring's oppressive heat, but Charles XII rejected what at this point?
(a) His officer's call to surrender.
(b) A peace feeler.
(c) His troops' call to flee.
(d) His officer's call to retreat.

6. Peter conquered coastal Finland, invaded the Aland Islands, and seized how many ships off Cape Hangö in one summer?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

7. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?
(a) Britain, Estonia, France, Ingria, Netherlands.
(b) Britain, Denmark, Finland, Karelia, Prussia.
(c) Denmark, France, Livonia, Netherlands, Western Poland.
(d) Britain, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Prussia.

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

9. How old was Peter Petrovich when he was named heir?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

10. According to Chapter 29, what positive improvements were part of Peter's reign?
(a) Condition of deformed infants, tax reform, theater.
(b) Condition of foreigners, technical education, public housing.
(c) Condition of women, language education, a newspaper.
(d) Condition of elderly, medical developments, theater.

11. When Afrosina provided proof of treason, what did Peter do?
(a) Prescribed collective trials, and sanctioned the death penalty.
(b) Set canonic, temporal trials and banished Alexis to a monastery.
(c) Ordained the religious and beheaded Alexis.
(d) Ordered ecclesiastic, secular trials and sanctioned torture.

12. In Chapter 29, where were open rebellions by Streltsy repressed?
(a) Bashkirs, Don Cossacks, Lipetsk.
(b) Astrakhan, Don Cossacks, Lipetsk.
(c) Astrakhan, Bashkirs, Lipetsk.
(d) Astrakhan, Bashkirs, Don Cossacks.

13. Which vast Ottoman Empire situation was surveyed in Chapter 40?
(a) Lithuanian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Swedish.
(d) Turkish.

14. Due to the French monarch's age, who served as Regent for Louis XV?
(a) Anthony Devier.
(b) Abbé Guillaume Duboi.
(c) Charles Eugene, Duc Du Croy.
(d) Philippe, Duc d'Orléans.

15. When Peter found evidence of Alexis' whereabouts, where did Charles VI move Alexis?
(a) Naples.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles XII was impatient, but a competent Russian attack surprised him when he crossed which waterway?

2. Which new fleet did Peter use in Chapter 44?

3. Chapter 45 showed Charles XII held in Adrianople for how long while Turkey and Russia concluded peace?

4. Upon meeting King Louis XV, Peter shocked the French by lifting him up and ___________.

5. What injury lay Charles XII up nearly dead from infection?

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