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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 did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(b) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.
(c) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(d) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.

2. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.
(b) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(c) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(d) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.

3. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Turgenev.
(d) Granovsky.

4. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.
(b) They can never see life through each other's eyes.
(c) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.
(d) They cannot know the divine mind.

5. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?
(a) German Romanticism.
(b) American Transcendentalism.
(c) English Humanism.
(d) American Pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the European states experienced revolution?

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

3. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?

4. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

5. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?

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