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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 the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.
(b) Literature reacted to political events.
(c) Literature prophesied political developments.
(d) Politics was transposed onto literature.

2. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?
(a) The development of Christianity.
(b) The industrial development of Russia.
(c) The Tsar's reforms.
(d) The Napoleonic battles.

3. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
(a) A period of tolerance.
(b) A period of repression.
(c) A period of terror.
(d) A period of prosperity.

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?
(a) Berlin describes him as censor who had a powerful effect on Russian literature.
(b) Berlin describes him as a moral thinker of the first importance.
(c) Berlin describes him as a theorist whose ideas were popular for a short time.
(d) Berlin describes him as writer of no lasting importance.

5. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?
(a) They saw themselves as proselytes, spreading a gospel of reason and faith in the arts.
(b) They saw themselves as aesthetes separate from questions of politics.
(c) They saw themselves as nationalists, building a new industrial nation out of the ruins of the feudal system.
(d) They saw themselves as a secular priesthood undertaking a sacred mission of enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

2. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?

3. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

4. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?

5. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?

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