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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?
(a) As a highly original thinker.
(b) As a shy aesthete.
(c) As a revolutionary filled with promise of his convictions.
(d) As a magnetic popularizer of other people's theories.

2. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"
(a) Turgenev rejected a world soul, but embraced the critique of materialism.
(b) Turgenev rejected materialism as the basis for political developments.
(c) Turgenev saw evolution as an inverse fulfillment of the Hegelian world-spirit.
(d) Turgenev saw Hegel's world spirit in the failure of reform movements in Russia.

3. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?
(a) The arts are the last thing to change in a culture.
(b) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
(c) Writers capture the times better than sociologists do.
(d) Idealism lives in literature but grows old and dies in prison.

4. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?
(a) German revolutionaries.
(b) Swiss watchmakers.
(c) The French bourgeoisie.
(d) Italian laborers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?

2. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

3. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

4. How did Herzen see human society?

5. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

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