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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. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?
(a) Pavel Annenkov.
(b) Vissarion Belinksy.
(c) Nicholas Stankevich.
(d) Nikolai Gogol.

2. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?
(a) Slavophilia.
(b) A new round of social reforms.
(c) The Russian Revolution.
(d) Jingoism.

3. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Ivan Turgenev.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

4. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(b) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(c) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(d) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.

5. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Earnest but unoriginal.
(b) Innovative but ineffectual.
(c) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(d) Unique and popular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

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

3. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

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

5. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

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