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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
(a) A period of prosperity.
(b) A period of terror.
(c) A period of tolerance.
(d) A period of repression.

3. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(b) The decline of Europe.
(c) The Thirty Years War.
(d) World War I.

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Meticulous.
(b) Elaborate.
(c) Dazzling.
(d) Leaden.

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 made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.
(d) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did censorship system work?

2. Where did de Maistre express his views?

3. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

4. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

5. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

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