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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. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?
(a) An older writer.
(b) A liberal professor.
(c) A lover.
(d) A German doctor.

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

3. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?
(a) Belinsky was described as the conscience of his generation.
(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 Russia's retrograde conservative.

4. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) They both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(b) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.
(c) They were both repelled by the shallow optimism and naivete of the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.

5. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Ivan Turgenev.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?

3. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

4. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

5. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

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