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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: Vissarion Belinsky.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Belinsky's father like?
(a) Belinsky's father was a retired naval doctor who drank.
(b) Belinsky's father was a bureaucrat in the agriculture ministry.
(c) Belinsky's father was a gentleman farmer.
(d) Belinsky's father was an engraver.

3. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?
(a) Berlin describes Belinsky as the decadent gadfly of his generation.
(b) Berlin describes Belinsky as a revolutionary whose martyrdom inspired future revolutionaries.
(c) Berlin describes Belinsky as an aesthete whose decadence was in fashion for a few years.
(d) Berlin describes Belinsky as the father of social criticism.

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Leaden.
(b) Dazzling.
(c) Meticulous.
(d) Elaborate.

5. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(b) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(c) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.
(d) He was an attache to the Tsar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

2. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?

3. How did Belinsky make a living?

4. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

5. What value came first for Herzen?

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