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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 conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Decembrists.
(b) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(c) The Molotov anarchists.
(d) The Moscow threat.

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

3. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
(a) It made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.
(b) It made them hungry for violent rebellion and abrupt social change.
(c) It made them dissolute and morally bankrupt.
(d) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

2. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?

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

4. What was de Maistre's position?

5. What were de Maistre's views?

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