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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. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Goncharov.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Stankevich.
(d) Herzen.

2. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
(a) Gloomy and pessimistic.
(b) Reform-minded and logical.
(c) Romantic and progressive.
(d) Crabby and self-defeating.

3. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(b) The decline of Europe.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Thirty Years War.

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

5. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Granovsky.
(c) Bakunin.
(d) Herzen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?

2. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

3. What was Belinsky like in a debate?

4. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

5. What was Belinsky's father like?

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