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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. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(b) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.
(c) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.
(d) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.

2. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"
(a) Turgenev saw evolution as an inverse fulfillment of the Hegelian world-spirit.
(b) Turgenev rejected materialism as the basis for political developments.
(c) Turgenev saw Hegel's world spirit in the failure of reform movements in Russia.
(d) Turgenev rejected a world soul, but embraced the critique of materialism.

3. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?
(a) As a highly original thinker.
(b) As a revolutionary filled with promise of his convictions.
(c) As a shy aesthete.
(d) As a magnetic popularizer of other people's theories.

4. What value came first for Herzen?
(a) Equality of the sexes.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Human dignity.
(d) Social justice.

5. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1838-1848.
(b) 1855-1870.
(c) 1848-1855.
(d) 1879-1896.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

2. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?

3. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?

4. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

5. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

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