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| 110518924 | What did Catherine the Great think of Westernization? | She flirted with the ideas of French Enlighenment, but failed to abolish serfdom | 0 | |
| 110518925 | What family was chosen in 1613 to establish a new ruling dynasty in Russia? | Romanov | 1 | |
| 110518926 | What eastern European nation declined most after 1500? | Poland | 2 | |
| 110518927 | What area was NOT colonized or claimed by Russian empire during Catherines reign? | Bengal | 3 | |
| 110518928 | What areas did Russia claim during Catherine the Greats reign? | Alaska, Pacific Coast of North America, California, Poland, and parts of Siberia | 4 | |
| 110518929 | What aspects of Western politics did Peter the Great copy in Russia? | Streamlined bureaucracy and reorganized the military | 5 | |
| 110518930 | Why did Russian expansion focus on central Asia? | Russians wre motivated by a desireto push the former Mongol overlords farther back to prevent new invasion | 6 | |
| 110518931 | Russian empire was successor to what empire? | Rome | 7 | |
| 110518932 | How were Polish and Russian governments different? | the central government was powerless in Polish | 8 | |
| 110518933 | How did Peter the Great change the foreign policy interests? | His wars with the Ottoman empire and sweden indicated a westward shift in RUssian expansion | 9 | |
| 110518934 | Who freed Russia from Mongol control? | Ivan III | 10 | |
| 110518935 | Where did Peter the Great place the new Russian capital? | St. Petersburg | 11 | |
| 110518936 | Main difference between social organization of the West and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries? | Russia saw a progressive intensification of serfdom while the West was relaxing this institution in favor of other labor system | 12 | |
| 110518937 | What sea was critical in Russian development during Peters reign? | Baltic Sea | 13 | |
| 110518938 | Status of merchant class in Russia? | failed to develop | 14 | |
| 110518939 | State of the Russian economy after expulsion of Mongols? | Purely agricultural and dependent on peasant labor | 15 | |
| 110518940 | Main difference between the Western and Russian empires? | Russia's expansion involved only limited commercial exchange. | 16 | |
| 110518941 | Impact of Mongol control over Russia? | lowered cultural and educational levels | 17 | |
| 110518942 | Who did Ivan III attack? | Boyars | 18 | |
| 110518943 | What are cossacks? | peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in the Russian empire. | 19 | |
| 110518944 | When was the Time of Troubles? | After Ivan IV died | 20 | |
| 110518945 | What did Romanov do that was seriously important? | Reform Orthodox church, exile old believers to Siberia, Continued colonization in central Asia, abolish noble assemblies | 21 | |
| 110518946 | What are "Old Believers" | .Russians who refused to accept tsarist reforms of the Orthodox Church. | 22 | |
| 110518947 | What did changing Russias capital do? | reflected the growing importance of Russian dominance of the Baltic Sea | 23 | |
| 110518948 | What economic aspects did Peter the Great focus on? | mining and mettallurgy (industry) | 24 | |
| 110518949 | Who did Peter direct his policy of cultural Westernization to? | Nobles | 25 | |
| 110518950 | What was Catherines government like | was strongly centralized, but yielded virtually all local control to the nobility. | 26 | |
| 110518951 | Who had part of Poland? | Russia, Austria, and Prussia | 27 | |
| 110518952 | What happened in 1649 with serfdom? | It became hereditary | 28 | |
| 110518953 | What made Russia more dependent on the West? | coercive labor | 29 | |
| 121053407 | What political center served as the focal point for the Russian liberation from the mongols | Duchy of Moscow | 30 | |
| 121053408 | What did Ivan the Terrible want most? | to confirm tsarist autocracy by attacking boyar authority | 31 | |
| 121053409 | What was the political voice of the Russian nobility? | Politics of Russian nobility under Catherine from any role in the central government or the military regulated them to strictly local authority | 32 |
