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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. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?
(a) The idea of racial purity and positive eugenics.
(b) The pragmatic notion that industrial development requires the scientific application of social theories.
(c) The jingoistic notion that the soul of a people is visible in its arts and industry.
(d) The Romantic notion that each human society has an organic unity.

2. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Searching for grand designs in events.
(c) Sharing experience between two people.
(d) Fulfilling individual experience.

3. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
(a) He liked the notion of a godless world motivated by individual actions.
(b) He liked the idea of a spiritual core to human society.
(c) He liked the concept of a clocklike divinity and an ordered universe.
(d) He liked the idea of a total divinity that determined every detail of the universe.

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

5. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Decembrist Committee.
(b) The Homeland Purity Committee.
(c) The Second of April Committee.
(d) The Comintern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?

2. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?

3. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

4. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?

5. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

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