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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 the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?
(a) English Humanism.
(b) German Romanticism.
(c) American Transcendentalism.
(d) American Pragmatism.

2. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(b) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(c) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(d) It had always been a role in Russian society.

3. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?
(a) He sees Herzen as a founder of Russian literature.
(b) He sees Herzen as underestimated.
(c) He sees Herzen as a momentary celebrity.
(d) He sees Herzen as overvalued.

4. When did Vissarion Belinsky die?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1850.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"

2. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?

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

4. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

5. Where was Belinsky born?

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