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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 was Belinsky's father like?
(a) Belinsky's father was a gentleman farmer.
(b) Belinsky's father was a retired naval doctor who drank.
(c) Belinsky's father was an engraver.
(d) Belinsky's father was a bureaucrat in the agriculture ministry.

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?
(a) Herzen was susceptible to Bakunin's improvident optimism.
(b) Herzen was the better intellectual.
(c) Bakunin learned his theories under Herzen's tutelage.
(d) Bakunin was inspired by Herzen's experience.

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

5. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?
(a) His theory of history seemed to predict Russian nationalism.
(b) His quasi-religious philosophy gave atheistic students something they could believe in.
(c) His idealism seemed like an escape from the squalor of Russia.
(d) His world spirit seemed to prophesy the Russian Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?

2. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?

3. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?

4. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?

5. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

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