1. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?
(a) Berlin describes him as a theorist whose ideas were popular for a short time.
(b) Berlin describes him as writer of no lasting importance.
(c) Berlin describes him as a moral thinker of the first importance.
(d) Berlin describes him as censor who had a powerful effect on Russian literature.

2. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.
(b) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(c) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(d) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.

3. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Transcendental experience.
(b) Human experience.
(c) Historical awareness.
(d) Spiritual transcendence.

4. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?
(a) Moral faults in the artist do not affect the artwork.
(b) Artists are the saviors and redeemers of culture.
(c) Artists are only legitimate if they are bohemian: sloppy and irresponsible.
(d) Artists are prophets whose lives are instructive to the masses.

5. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
(a) A period of repression.
(b) A period of prosperity.
(c) A period of tolerance.
(d) A period of terror.