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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 was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) They were co-conspirators.
(b) They shared similar views.
(c) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(d) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.

2. Where was Belinsky born?
(a) Finland.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Berlin.

3. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?
(a) An older writer.
(b) A liberal professor.
(c) A German doctor.
(d) A lover.

4. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(b) World War I.
(c) The decline of Europe.
(d) The Thirty Years War.

5. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?
(a) They had difficulty getting their work into print, because the censors were so strict.
(b) They published in underground magazines and pamphlets.
(c) They were free to publish political commentary and opinions without persecution.
(d) They could publish their work, but sometimes had to be vague about their political meanings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?

2. How did Herzen see history?

3. How did Herzen see human society?

4. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

5. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

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