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

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

3. Unable to fight with Sweden or Britain in new "ship-of-the-line" warships, what did Peter build that could sail close to shore and swarm larger ships?

4. When Peter found evidence of Alexis' whereabouts, where did Charles VI move Alexis?

5. In Chapter 33, some 35,000 Swedes were against 57,500 Russians, with how many reinforcements respectively?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of effect did the arrival of Charles XII in Germany have?

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

3. How did Peter respond to his Poltava triumph?

4. What sort of life did Catherine originate from?

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

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

7. St. Petersburg came about in what fashion?

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

9. Why did Peter decide to focus his attention on the conquest of the upper Baltic?

10. What were some ways Peter's second historic journey into the West differed from his first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Tsar Peter's reaction to Mazeppa's treason?

Essay Topic 2

When at dinner among Tsar Peter's lieutenants and friends in 1717, what was Prince Jacob Dolgoruky's response when Peter asked the seventy-eight year old how he compared the accomplishments of Tsar Alexis with those of Peter?

Essay Topic 3

What were the fruits that Peter's triumph at Poltava afforded?

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