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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. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1809.

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

3. Who was Joseph de Maistre?
(a) A conspirator against the Tsar.
(b) A poor writer.
(c) A bureaucrat on the censorship committee.
(d) An educated courtier.

4. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?
(a) Slavophilia.
(b) A new round of social reforms.
(c) The Russian Revolution.
(d) Jingoism.

5. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archilochus.
(c) Plotinus.
(d) Solon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

2. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

3. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

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