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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 Molotov anarchists.
(b) The Decembrists.
(c) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(d) The Moscow threat.

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Nicholas I.
(c) Nicholas II.
(d) Charles.

3. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a censor in the government.
(b) He was an effective publicist.
(c) He was a famous playwright.
(d) He was an education minister.

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

5. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?
(a) Progressive Romantics believed that society was inevitably moving forward.
(b) Progressive Romantics believed that progress was going to come from industry and social reforms.
(c) Progressive Romantics believed that intellectuals were responsible for the soul of the nation.
(d) Progressive Romantics believed that serfs would free themselves through violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

2. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

3. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?

4. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

5. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?

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