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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 said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Solon.
(b) Plotinus.
(c) Archilochus.
(d) Plato.

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

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

4. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Transcendental experience.
(b) Human experience.
(c) Spiritual transcendence.
(d) Historical awareness.

5. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Marx.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hume.
(d) Hegel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?

3. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

4. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

5. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?

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