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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Protestants sought to keep Charles XII apart from whom?

2. Charles XII ordered the Poles to join him, hoping who would aid him?

3. Entering Peter's world through Lefort, how did Massie describe Alexander Menshikov in Chapter 28?

4. Peter engaged which philosopher to oversee administrative, educational, and legal reforms?

5. General Lewenhaupt was sent for a massive quantity of supplies, but his effort bogged down and cost the campaign of Charles XII how much time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was it Russia appeared to have significantly deteriorated in comparison to Sweden in the spring of 1720?

4. Peter quickly suffered dismay upon his return to St. Petersburg on October 11, 1717, for what reason?

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

6. Given England's 100-ship Royal Navy, why did the Baltic powers have relatively smaller fleets?

7. According to Chapter 36, how confident did Charles XII feel in early April ?

8. Peter gave orders as early as January, 1707, that directed what to be done to Poland?

9. Why did Peter never have to simultaneously fight two enemies?

10. What did Charles XII propose to his senior officers the day prior to the battle at Poltava in June, 1709?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was the Tsar's Great Embassy one of only a couple of overwhelming events in his life?

Essay Topic 2

What was Peter's childhood like? What was of importance that transpired during this time?

Essay Topic 3

What events transpired in the six weeks subsequent to the death of Charles XII that drastically affected the life of Baron Georg Heinrich von Goertz?

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