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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 measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?
(a) He repressed all signs of dissent and unorthodoxy.
(b) He imprisoned his former supporters.
(c) He gave serfs and women the right to vote.
(d) He declared martial law.

2. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Nikolai Gogol.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

3. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?
(a) Serious critic.
(b) Essayist and revolutionary.
(c) Writer and activist.
(d) Intellectual tourist.

4. 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 sum total of each individual's experiences.
(d) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.

5. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.
(b) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(c) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(d) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

3. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?

4. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?

5. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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