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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 did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(b) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(c) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.
(d) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.

2. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In proselytizing for the church.
(b) In their writing and activism.
(c) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(d) In conspiring against the government.

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

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?
(a) Berlin describes him as writer of no lasting importance.
(b) Berlin describes him as censor who had a powerful effect on Russian literature.
(c) Berlin describes him as a moral thinker of the first importance.
(d) Berlin describes him as a theorist whose ideas were popular for a short time.

5. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?
(a) Herzen's.
(b) Schelling's.
(c) Dostoevsky's.
(d) Hegel's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What value came first for Herzen?

2. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?

3. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

4. What did Belinsky find in literature?

5. Which thinker affected Herzen?

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