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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. What transpired after a broken Alexis was condemned to death?

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

3. How old was Peter Petrovich when he was named heir?

4. Although Mazeppa had run into his arms, why was Charles XII desperate?

5. How soon after Goertz went to Charles XII about having negotiated with Norway without authorization did Charles die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Peter compare with his son, Alexis?

2. In Chapter 33, what did the author describe Charles XII and Peter as having done in the early summer months?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What significance did Andrew Vinius, Patrick Gordon, Francis Lefort, and the Jolly Company have in Peter's life?

Essay Topic 3

How was it St. Petersburg came to be?

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