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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?
(a) His quasi-religious philosophy gave atheistic students something they could believe in.
(b) His theory of history seemed to predict Russian nationalism.
(c) His idealism seemed like an escape from the squalor of Russia.
(d) His world spirit seemed to prophesy the Russian Revolution.

2. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The Thirty Years War.
(b) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(c) The decline of Europe.
(d) World War I.

3. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?
(a) A police state.
(b) A moral and intellectual vacuum.
(c) A powder keg on the verge of revolution.
(d) A thriving renaissance.

4. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?
(a) Nicholas Stankevich.
(b) Vissarion Belinksy.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Pavel Annenkov.

5. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1848-1855.
(b) 1838-1848.
(c) 1879-1896.
(d) 1855-1870.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?

2. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

3. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?

4. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

5. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?

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