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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. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(b) It had always been a role in Russian society.
(c) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(d) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.

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

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

4. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Alexander Pushkin.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Ivan Turgenev.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

2. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?

3. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?

4. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

5. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

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