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

2. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The decline of Europe.
(b) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Thirty Years War.

3. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.

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

5. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

2. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

3. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

5. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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