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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: Alexander Herzen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1838-1848.
(b) 1879-1896.
(c) 1855-1870.
(d) 1848-1855.

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

3. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Having too much insight as an artist.
(b) Not having an overarching vision.
(c) Having too much wealth as a landowner.
(d) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.

4. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He stepped down.
(b) He moved away from reform.
(c) He abandoned tradition.
(d) He adopted a series of reforms.

5. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) State power.
(b) Individual liberty.
(c) Church power.
(d) Spiritual experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

2. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

3. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?

4. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

5. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

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