View a FREE sample

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

2. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Society.
(b) The concreteness of experience.
(c) Abstractions.
(d) Political calculations.

3. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Alexander Pushkin.
(b) Nikolai Gogol.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?
(a) Italian laborers.
(b) German revolutionaries.
(c) Swiss watchmakers.
(d) The French bourgeoisie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

2. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?

3. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

4. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

5. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 261 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample