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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. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?
(a) He sees Herzen as a momentary celebrity.
(b) He sees Herzen as underestimated.
(c) He sees Herzen as overvalued.
(d) He sees Herzen as a founder of Russian literature.

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Charles.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Nicholas II.
(d) Nicholas I.

3. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Pavel Annenkov.
(b) Vissarion Belinksy.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Alexander Herzen.

4. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.
(b) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.
(c) They both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both repelled by the shallow optimism and naivete of the intelligentsia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?

3. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?

4. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Berlin see Tolstoy's experience as representative of Russian culture?

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

3. What problems did Herzen have with Hegelian philosophy?

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

5. Which Russian intellectuals did Pavel Annenkov describe in his memoirs?

6. How did the revolutions of 1848 affect western European intellectuals and Russians differently?

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

8. What was Annenkov's role in the circle of Russian Intelligentsia?

9. What saying of Schelling's represents the relationship of artists to their times in Russian ideology of the mid-nineteenth century?

10. What did Nicholas Stankevich find attractive in Hegel's theories?

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