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

2. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?
(a) The arts are the last thing to change in a culture.
(b) Writers capture the times better than sociologists do.
(c) Idealism lives in literature but grows old and dies in prison.
(d) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

3. What advantages did Hegel's theories have for Bakunin?
(a) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his loathing of Russian politics.
(b) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify aesthetics and physical labor.
(c) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his optimism in Russia's future.
(d) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify both rebellion and obedience.

4. 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 both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(c) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Leaden.
(b) Meticulous.
(c) Dazzling.
(d) Elaborate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?

3. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

5. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

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