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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. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?
(a) They saw themselves as aesthetes separate from questions of politics.
(b) They saw themselves as proselytes, spreading a gospel of reason and faith in the arts.
(c) They saw themselves as nationalists, building a new industrial nation out of the ruins of the feudal system.
(d) They saw themselves as a secular priesthood undertaking a sacred mission of enlightenment.

2. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?
(a) Progressive Romantics believed that serfs would free themselves through violence.
(b) Progressive Romantics believed that society was inevitably moving forward.
(c) Progressive Romantics believed that progress was going to come from industry and social reforms.
(d) Progressive Romantics believed that intellectuals were responsible for the soul of the nation.

3. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Second of April Committee.
(b) The Homeland Purity Committee.
(c) The Decembrist Committee.
(d) The Comintern.

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

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His chronicler of human experience.
(b) His theorizing.
(c) His symbolic descriptions.
(d) His moralizing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

2. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?

3. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

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

5. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

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