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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: Alexander Herzen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(b) Earnest but unoriginal.
(c) Unique and popular.
(d) Innovative but ineffectual.

2. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Stankevich.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Goncharov.
(d) Gogol.

3. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
(a) A period of prosperity.
(b) A period of repression.
(c) A period of terror.
(d) A period of tolerance.

4. Whose philosophy did Herzen follow?
(a) Marx'.
(b) Hegel's.
(c) Rousseau's.
(d) Plato's.

5. What did Herzen believe was the "goal" of life?
(a) Life itself.
(b) Social justice.
(c) Political equality for everyone.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

2. Which thinker affected Herzen?

3. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?

4. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

5. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

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