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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 mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?
(a) He believed that German universities would not instill any revolutionary ideas in Russian students.
(b) He believed that German universities were safer than French universities.
(c) He believed that German universities would give Russian students a good foundation in Slavic culture.
(d) He believed that English universities were the best, but he also believed that they were too expensive.

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

3. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?
(a) He imprisoned his former supporters.
(b) He repressed all signs of dissent and unorthodoxy.
(c) He declared martial law.
(d) He gave serfs and women the right to vote.

4. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
(a) As polarizing.
(b) As magnetic.
(c) As shy and shrinking.
(d) As luminous.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

4. How did censorship system work?

5. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

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