Question

question 5 (multiple choice worth 5 points) (05.02 mc) peter the great of russia is most well - known for surrendering more power to the russian nobility using secret police to hunt down those plotting against him exercising absolute monarchy to modernize russia resisting new ideas from the scientific revolution

Explanation:

• Option 1: Peter the Great reduced the power of the nobility, so this is incorrect.
• Option 2: Using secret police to hunt opponents was more associated with later Russian rulers like Ivan the Terrible or Stalin - era, not Peter the Great.
• Option 3: Peter the Great was an absolute monarch who implemented reforms to modernize Russia (e.g., westernizing culture, expanding territory, reforming government and military), so this is correct.
• Option 4: Peter the Great embraced new ideas from the West (including the Scientific Revolution) to modernize Russia, so he did not resist them.

Answer:

C. exercising absolute monarchy to modernize Russia