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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 was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(b) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.
(c) They were co-conspirators.
(d) They shared similar views.

2. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.
(b) They both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(c) They were both repelled by the shallow optimism and naivete of the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.

3. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Innovative but ineffectual.
(b) Earnest but unoriginal.
(c) Unique and popular.
(d) Revolutionary and dangerous.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

3. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

4. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

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