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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. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) Spiritual experience.
(b) Church power.
(c) Individual liberty.
(d) State power.

2. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
(a) Reform-minded and logical.
(b) Crabby and self-defeating.
(c) Romantic and progressive.
(d) Gloomy and pessimistic.

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

4. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Abstractions.
(b) Political calculations.
(c) The concreteness of experience.
(d) Society.

5. How did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.
(b) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.
(c) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(d) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.

Short Answer Questions

1. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

2. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

3. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?

4. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

5. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

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