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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. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In conspiring against the government.
(b) In their writing and activism.
(c) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(d) In proselytizing for the church.

2. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?
(a) Conservative Romantics believed that mechanical reforms would not work without a deep understanding of the Russian soul
(b) Conservative Romantics believed that the best progress was a return to traditional Russian values.
(c) Conservative Romantics believed that progress was a trap, and that the only way out would be to develop Russian nationalism.
(d) Conservative Romantics believed that intellectuals could thrive without changing the aristocratic government.

3. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(b) With the Tsar's death in 1855.
(c) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.
(d) With the German invasion of 1848.

4. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Herder.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Mickiewicz.
(d) Mazzini.

5. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Sharing experience between two people.
(b) Searching for grand designs in events.
(c) Transcendent experience.
(d) Fulfilling individual experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

2. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

3. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

4. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

5. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?

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