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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 did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?
(a) They had difficulty getting their work into print, because the censors were so strict.
(b) They published in underground magazines and pamphlets.
(c) They could publish their work, but sometimes had to be vague about their political meanings.
(d) They were free to publish political commentary and opinions without persecution.

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

3. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?
(a) Communes.
(b) A type of social criticism.
(c) A code for illicit communications.
(d) Personal-philosophical essays.

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

5. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Herder.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Mickiewicz.
(d) Mazzini.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

3. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?

4. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

5. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

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