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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. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?
(a) Censors looked for subversive ideas.
(b) Censors persecuted the families of authors.
(c) Censors intimidated writers who wrote subversive material.
(d) Censors told writers what to write.

2. What forces dominated Herzen's world?
(a) English humanism.
(b) American pragmatism.
(c) French and German romanticism.
(d) Roman republicanism.

3. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) The concreteness of experience.
(b) Abstractions.
(c) Society.
(d) Political calculations.

4. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Bakunin.
(c) Granovsky.
(d) Herzen.

5. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Vissarion Belinksy.
(b) Pavel Annenkov.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Alexander Herzen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Belinsky find in literature?

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

3. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?

4. Which principles did Belinsky never abandon?

5. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

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