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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 did Belinsky find in literature?
(a) Evidence of a national race-life.
(b) Evidence of European superiority.
(c) Vicarious experiences.
(d) Spiritual and emotional "ideas."

2. What advantages did Hegel's theories have for Bakunin?
(a) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify both rebellion and obedience.
(b) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his optimism in Russia's future.
(c) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his loathing of Russian politics.
(d) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify aesthetics and physical labor.

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Hume and Locke.
(b) Fichte and Schelling.
(c) Plato and Plotinus.
(d) Flaubert and Rousseau.

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

5. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?
(a) They saw themselves as aesthetes separate from questions of politics.
(b) They saw themselves as proselytes, spreading a gospel of reason and faith in the arts.
(c) They saw themselves as nationalists, building a new industrial nation out of the ruins of the feudal system.
(d) They saw themselves as a secular priesthood undertaking a sacred mission of enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

2. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?

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

4. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?

5. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?

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