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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 does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Elaborate.
(b) Dazzling.
(c) Leaden.
(d) Meticulous.

2. 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) Society.
(c) Abstractions.
(d) Political calculations.

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

4. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.
(b) Not having an overarching vision.
(c) Having too much insight as an artist.
(d) Having too much wealth as a landowner.

5. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?
(a) A moral and intellectual vacuum.
(b) A powder keg on the verge of revolution.
(c) A police state.
(d) A thriving renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

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

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

4. How did Herzen see history?

5. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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