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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Elaborate.
(b) Leaden.
(c) Dazzling.
(d) Meticulous.

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
(a) As polarizing.
(b) As luminous.
(c) As shy and shrinking.
(d) As magnetic.

3. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Second of April Committee.
(b) The Comintern.
(c) The Decembrist Committee.
(d) The Homeland Purity Committee.

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

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?
(a) He sees Herzen as a momentary celebrity.
(b) He sees Herzen as underestimated.
(c) He sees Herzen as a founder of Russian literature.
(d) He sees Herzen as overvalued.

Short Answer Questions

1. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

2. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?

3. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

4. When had the European states experienced revolution?

5. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What example does Tolstoy use to explain why human beings cannot know all the actions and causes that affect their experiences?

2. What was Annenkov's role in the circle of Russian Intelligentsia?

3. Why, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy resist subscribing to a totalizing theory of history?

4. What was Leo Tolstoy's as a thinker, and how does Berlin see him?

5. Where in Europe were there revolutions in 1848?

6. Which Russian intellectuals did Pavel Annenkov describe in his memoirs?

7. Describe the difference between Herzen and Bakunin's personalities.

8. How did Tsar Nicholas respond to the European revolutions of 1848?

9. What did Russian students learn in German universities?

10. What was Herzen's reaction to Hegelian ideology?

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