In what area did Catherine the great of Russia achieve the greatest success with her Enlightenment reforms?

Question

In what area did Catherine the great of Russia achieve the greatest success with her Enlightenment reforms?

a.Ending serfdom
b.Eliminating trade barriers and building up the middle class
c.Creating a profession bureaucracy to run the government based upon merit
d.Instituting greater democracy in Russia

Answer 1

Definitely not A or D. She did both b and c, but since the middle class never became very large, and the bureaucracy never became really efficient, you could really debate those. I would say her Education reforms were a greater success than either of those, but since that's not an option, if I had to chose, I'd go with c.
This is why I hate multipe choice questions.

Answer 2

Developing the Free Economic Society and the Hermitage Museum would get my vote.