Russian Thinkers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Russian Thinkers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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

2. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

3. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?
(a) Jingoism.
(b) Slavophilia.
(c) A new round of social reforms.
(d) The Russian Revolution.

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

5. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.
(b) They both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(c) They were both repelled by the shallow optimism and naivete of the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

2. What were de Maistre's views?

3. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?

4. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

5. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?

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