2. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was an effective publicist.
(b) He was a censor in the government.
(c) He was a famous playwright.
(d) He was an education minister.

3. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Mazzini.
(b) Herder.
(c) Mickiewicz.
(d) Hegel.

4. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Industrialization.
(c) Land reform.
(d) Romantic philosophy.

5. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His moral vision.
(b) His detailed descriptions.
(c) His acute social commentary.
(d) His philosophy of history.

6. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the streets of Moscow.
(b) In the church.
(c) In books and letters.
(d) In the Tsar's court.

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

8. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1817
(c) 1809.
(d) 1848.

9. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
(a) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.
(b) It made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.
(c) It made them dissolute and morally bankrupt.
(d) It made them hungry for violent rebellion and abrupt social change.

10. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"
(a) Turgenev rejected a world soul, but embraced the critique of materialism.
(b) Turgenev saw Hegel's world spirit in the failure of reform movements in Russia.
(c) Turgenev rejected materialism as the basis for political developments.
(d) Turgenev saw evolution as an inverse fulfillment of the Hegelian world-spirit.

11. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(b) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(c) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(d) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.

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

13. How did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.
(b) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(c) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(d) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.

14. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.
(b) Literature prophesied political developments.
(c) Literature reacted to political events.
(d) Politics was transposed onto literature.

15. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Decembrists.
(b) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(c) The Moscow threat.
(d) The Molotov anarchists.