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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 the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?
(a) A police state.
(b) A moral and intellectual vacuum.
(c) A powder keg on the verge of revolution.
(d) A thriving renaissance.

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

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

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

5. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) They were both repelled by the shallow optimism and naivete of the intelligentsia.
(b) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.
(c) They both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

2. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

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

4. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?

5. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?

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