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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.

2. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Society.
(b) The concreteness of experience.
(c) Abstractions.
(d) Political calculations.

3. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(b) They were co-conspirators.
(c) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.
(d) They shared similar views.

4. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Alexander Herzen.
(b) Ivan Turgenev.
(c) Vissarion Belinksy.
(d) Pavel Annenkov.

5. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They cannot know the divine mind.
(b) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.
(c) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.
(d) They can never see life through each other's eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?

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

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?

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

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

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