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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. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Dazzling.
(b) Elaborate.
(c) Leaden.
(d) Meticulous.
2. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.
(b) They cannot know the divine mind.
(c) They can never see life through each other's eyes.
(d) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.
3. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?
(a) A powder keg on the verge of revolution.
(b) A thriving renaissance.
(c) A police state.
(d) A moral and intellectual vacuum.
4. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a famous playwright.
(b) He was a censor in the government.
(c) He was an effective publicist.
(d) He was an education minister.
5. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Hume and Locke.
(b) Plato and Plotinus.
(c) Flaubert and Rousseau.
(d) Fichte and Schelling.
Short Answer Questions
1. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
2. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
3. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?
4. When had the European states experienced revolution?
5. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
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