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

2. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(b) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.
(c) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(d) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.

3. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(b) It had always been a role in Russian society.
(c) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(d) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.

4. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Not having an overarching vision.
(b) Having too much insight as an artist.
(c) Having too much wealth as a landowner.
(d) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.

5. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) Church power.
(b) Spiritual experience.
(c) Individual liberty.
(d) State power.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

3. What value came first for Herzen?

4. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

5. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?

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