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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?
(a) Progressive Romantics believed that intellectuals were responsible for the soul of the nation.
(b) Progressive Romantics believed that progress was going to come from industry and social reforms.
(c) Progressive Romantics believed that serfs would free themselves through violence.
(d) Progressive Romantics believed that society was inevitably moving forward.

2. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?
(a) German Romanticism.
(b) English Humanism.
(c) American Pragmatism.
(d) American Transcendentalism.

3. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Abstractions.
(b) Society.
(c) The concreteness of experience.
(d) Political calculations.

4. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.

5. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Plato and Plotinus.
(b) Fichte and Schelling.
(c) Hume and Locke.
(d) Flaubert and Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

2. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?

3. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

4. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

5. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

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