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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Marx.
(c) Hume.
(d) Plato.

2. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.
(b) A decrease in censorship.
(c) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(d) Intense Slavophilia.

3. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His acute social commentary.
(b) His moral vision.
(c) His philosophy of history.
(d) His detailed descriptions.

4. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Vissarion Belinksy.
(c) Nicholas Stankevich.
(d) Pavel Annenkov.

5. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(b) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(c) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(d) It had always been a role in Russian society.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

3. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

4. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

5. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Russian students learn in German universities?

2. What was Leo Tolstoy's as a thinker, and how does Berlin see him?

3. What saying of Schelling's represents the relationship of artists to their times in Russian ideology of the mid-nineteenth century?

4. What was Herzen's reaction to Hegelian ideology?

5. What was the effect of the "moral quarantine" of Western ideas in Russia?

6. How did Tsar Nicholas respond to the European revolutions of 1848?

7. Which Russian intellectuals did Pavel Annenkov describe in his memoirs?

8. Who was Joseph de Maistre and what ideas did Tolstoy share with him?

9. Describe the main ideas of Hegel's that influenced Herzen.

10. In what ways does Berlin see Tolstoy's experience as representative of Russian culture?

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