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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 did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.
(b) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(c) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.
(d) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.

2. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the Tsar's court.
(c) In books and letters.
(d) In the streets of Moscow.

3. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?
(a) Alexander Pushkin.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Nikolai Gogol.

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

5. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Charles.
(b) Nicholas I.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Nicholas II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What value came first for Herzen?

2. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?

3. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?

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

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

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