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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(b) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(c) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.
(d) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.

2. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
(a) Civil rights for serfs and peasants.
(b) Autocracy, religion and order.
(c) The property of landowners.
(d) Opportunity and liberty.

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Marx.
(b) Hume.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Plato.

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(b) Reforms in land ownership and use.
(c) Selfish aristocrats.
(d) Anarchist mobs.

5. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

2. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

3. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

4. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?

5. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

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