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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 37 described a clash that was most effective because of Rehnskjold's failure to share what with fellow generals?
(a) Battle plans.
(b) Food supplies.
(c) Reinforcements.
(d) Gunpowder.

2. While retaining the Baltic lands, what did Peter allow them to keep?
(a) Episcopalian culture.
(b) Lutheran culture.
(c) Catholic culture.
(d) Methodist culture.

3. Peter engaged which philosopher to oversee administrative, educational, and legal reforms?
(a) Francis Lefort.
(b) Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.
(c) Gottfried von Leibniz.
(d) Stanislaus Lesczynski.

4. Why was it that Peter's 1717 visit to France yielded no diplomatic fruit?
(a) Councillor of State was set to ally with England, George I hated Peter.
(b) Councillor of State was set to ally with England, George II hated Peter.
(c) Regent were set to ally with England, George I hated Peter.
(d) Regent were set to ally with England, George II hated Peter.

5. Peter was shown in Chapter 29 as an autocrat over the vast country which he divided into how many governorships?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Alexis finally seek asylum after originally being ordered by Peter to go to Copenhagen?

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

4. Following his stay in Adrianople, where did Charles XII race?

5. Where did Charles XII flee as Peter made his first disciplined infantry launch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Peter seek to control Dorpat and Narva in 1704?

2. Why did Charles XII turn south in mid-September and send General Anders Lagercrona's vanguard ahead?

3. Why did the Turkish Sultan want to send Charles XII home?

4. St. Petersburg came about in what fashion?

5. What did Chapter 42, "Fifty Blows on the Pruth," take its title from?

6. What took place in the Great Audience Hall in Moscow on February 3, 1718?

7. What did Alexis do on the evening of November 10, 1716?

8. Throughout Peter's reign, why was he seen as constantly moving?

9. What did Charles XII and his advance regiments find upon arrival at Baturin on November 11?

10. Why did the author use the phrase "a place of carnage" to describe the battlefield at Poltava?

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