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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. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the streets of Moscow.
(c) In the Tsar's court.
(d) In books and letters.

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

3. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) Jingoism.
(c) A new round of social reforms.
(d) Slavophilia.

4. Which character was based on Belinsky?
(a) Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
(b) Vronsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
(c) Onegin in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
(d) Basistov in Turgenev's Rudin.

5. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(b) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(c) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(d) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?

2. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?

3. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?

4. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

5. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?

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