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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. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.
(b) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(c) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(d) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.

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

3. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
(a) Crabby and self-defeating.
(b) Gloomy and pessimistic.
(c) Romantic and progressive.
(d) Reform-minded and logical.

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(b) Reforms in land ownership and use.
(c) Anarchist mobs.
(d) Selfish aristocrats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantages did Hegel's theories have for Bakunin?

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

3. What were de Maistre's views?

4. What was de Maistre's position?

5. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?

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