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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. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Turgenev.
(d) Goncharov.

2. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
(a) Reform-minded and logical.
(b) Crabby and self-defeating.
(c) Gloomy and pessimistic.
(d) Romantic and progressive.

3. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He abandoned tradition.
(b) He adopted a series of reforms.
(c) He moved away from reform.
(d) He stepped down.

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

5. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.
(b) They cannot know the divine mind.
(c) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.
(d) They can never see life through each other's eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

3. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?

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

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

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