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

2. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1838-1848.
(b) 1848-1855.
(c) 1855-1870.
(d) 1879-1896.

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Marx.
(b) Hume.
(c) Plato.
(d) Hegel.

4. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?
(a) Belinsky was described as Russia's retrograde conservative.
(b) Belinsky was described as Russia's most optimistic Romantic.
(c) Belinsky was described as the aesthete of his generation.
(d) Belinsky was described as the conscience of his generation.

5. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?
(a) Pavel Annenkov.
(b) Nicholas Stankevich.
(c) Nikolai Gogol.
(d) Vissarion Belinksy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

3. What was de Maistre's position?

4. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?

5. How widely was Belinsky read?

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