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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 Hegel's appeal to Russian students?
(a) His idealism seemed like an escape from the squalor of Russia.
(b) His world spirit seemed to prophesy the Russian Revolution.
(c) His quasi-religious philosophy gave atheistic students something they could believe in.
(d) His theory of history seemed to predict Russian nationalism.
2. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
(a) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.
(b) It made them hungry for violent rebellion and abrupt social change.
(c) It made them dissolute and morally bankrupt.
(d) It made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.
3. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(b) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.
(c) They shared similar views.
(d) They were co-conspirators.
4. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
5. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?
(a) Intellectual tourist.
(b) Writer and activist.
(c) Essayist and revolutionary.
(d) Serious critic.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
2. How did Herzen see history?
3. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
4. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?
5. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
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