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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 said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Plotinus.
(b) Archilochus.
(c) Solon.
(d) Plato.

2. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?
(a) He believed that German universities would give Russian students a good foundation in Slavic culture.
(b) He believed that English universities were the best, but he also believed that they were too expensive.
(c) He believed that German universities were safer than French universities.
(d) He believed that German universities would not instill any revolutionary ideas in Russian students.

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

4. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?
(a) Moral faults in the artist do not affect the artwork.
(b) Artists are the saviors and redeemers of culture.
(c) Artists are only legitimate if they are bohemian: sloppy and irresponsible.
(d) Artists are prophets whose lives are instructive to the masses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?

2. Which thinker affected Herzen?

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?

4. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

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

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