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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 was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?
(a) Bakunin learned his theories under Herzen's tutelage.
(b) Herzen was susceptible to Bakunin's improvident optimism.
(c) Bakunin was inspired by Herzen's experience.
(d) Herzen was the better intellectual.

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Nicholas I.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Nicholas II.
(d) Charles.

3. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Decembrists.
(b) The Molotov anarchists.
(c) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(d) The Moscow threat.

4. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hume.
(d) Marx.

5. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Granovsky.
(d) Turgenev.

Short Answer Questions

1. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

2. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?

3. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

4. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?

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

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