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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 Belinsky's legacy?
(a) Berlin describes Belinsky as the decadent gadfly of his generation.
(b) Berlin describes Belinsky as the father of social criticism.
(c) Berlin describes Belinsky as an aesthete whose decadence was in fashion for a few years.
(d) Berlin describes Belinsky as a revolutionary whose martyrdom inspired future revolutionaries.

2. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It had always been a role in Russian society.
(b) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(c) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(d) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.

3. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?
(a) Belinsky was expelled for writing an essay mocking the university president.
(b) Belinsky was expelled for writing a play denouncing serfdom.
(c) Belinsky was expelled for an affair with a governess.
(d) Belinsky was expelled for inciting a student riot.

4. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) Spiritual experience.
(b) State power.
(c) Individual liberty.
(d) Church power.

5. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

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

3. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

4. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

5. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

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