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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?
(a) Intellectual tourist.
(b) Essayist and revolutionary.
(c) Serious critic.
(d) Writer and activist.

2. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Abstractions.
(b) The concreteness of experience.
(c) Political calculations.
(d) Society.

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Hume.
(c) Plato.
(d) Marx.

4. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In conspiring against the government.
(b) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(c) In their writing and activism.
(d) In proselytizing for the church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?

2. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

3. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?

4. What were de Maistre's views?

5. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tsar Nicholas respond to the European revolutions of 1848?

2. What problems did Herzen have with Hegelian philosophy?

3. What was Leo Tolstoy's as a thinker, and how does Berlin see him?

4. Whose writings had Russian intellectuals and writers primarily been influenced by?

5. What influence did censors have on Russian intellectuals and literature?

6. Who was Joseph de Maistre and what ideas did Tolstoy share with him?

7. What example does Tolstoy use to explain why human beings cannot know all the actions and causes that affect their experiences?

8. What was the heart of the Romantic notion that held the Russian intelligentsia in Germany's influence?

9. Describe the difference between progressive and reactionary Romanticism.

10. What conspiracy group did the Second of April Committee unveil, and what was the result of the trial?

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