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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. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(b) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(c) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(d) It had always been a role in Russian society.

2. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?
(a) German Romanticism.
(b) American Pragmatism.
(c) English Humanism.
(d) American Transcendentalism.

3. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) A decrease in censorship.
(b) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.
(c) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(d) Intense Slavophilia.

4. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Plato and Plotinus.
(b) Flaubert and Rousseau.
(c) Hume and Locke.
(d) Fichte and Schelling.

5. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?
(a) He presented life in detail, but developed an overarching moral vision.
(b) He described the moral plan of the universe in symbolic language.
(c) He presented life in detail, with each detail providing evidence of an overarching universal plan.
(d) He subscribed to an abstract vision of life, but tried to present life in detail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

3. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

4. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?

5. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

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