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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 the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) Intense Slavophilia.
(b) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(c) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.
(d) A decrease in censorship.

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

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

4. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?
(a) Conservative Romantics believed that the best progress was a return to traditional Russian values.
(b) Conservative Romantics believed that intellectuals could thrive without changing the aristocratic government.
(c) Conservative Romantics believed that mechanical reforms would not work without a deep understanding of the Russian soul
(d) Conservative Romantics believed that progress was a trap, and that the only way out would be to develop Russian nationalism.

5. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was an effective publicist.
(b) He was an education minister.
(c) He was a famous playwright.
(d) He was a censor in the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the European states experienced revolution?

2. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

3. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

4. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?

5. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?

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