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

2. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Goncharov.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Turgenev.

3. How did censorship system work?
(a) It was a double censorship system.
(b) It relied on writers' self-censorship.
(c) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(d) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.

4. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?
(a) The industrial development of Russia.
(b) The Tsar's reforms.
(c) The Napoleonic battles.
(d) The development of Christianity.

5. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He stepped down.
(b) He adopted a series of reforms.
(c) He moved away from reform.
(d) He abandoned tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

3. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

4. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

5. What were de Maistre's views?

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