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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 effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
(a) It made them hungry for violent rebellion and abrupt social change.
(b) It made them dissolute and morally bankrupt.
(c) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.
(d) It made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.

2. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?
(a) His world spirit seemed to prophesy the Russian Revolution.
(b) His quasi-religious philosophy gave atheistic students something they could believe in.
(c) His theory of history seemed to predict Russian nationalism.
(d) His idealism seemed like an escape from the squalor of Russia.

3. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1848.

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

5. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Politics was transposed onto literature.
(b) Literature reacted to political events.
(c) Literature prophesied political developments.
(d) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

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

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

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

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

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