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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. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Sharing experience between two people.
(c) Searching for grand designs in events.
(d) Fulfilling individual experience.

2. What balance did Belinsky strike in his career?
(a) Belinsky's life balanced between violence with restraint.
(b) Belinsky's life balanced between literature and farming.
(c) Belinsky's life balanced between aristocracy and rusticity.
(d) Belinsky's life balanced between progress and conservatism.

3. What did Belinsky find in literature?
(a) Evidence of a national race-life.
(b) Evidence of European superiority.
(c) Spiritual and emotional "ideas."
(d) Vicarious experiences.

4. 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 fulfill his own nature.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.

5. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(b) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(c) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.
(d) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

2. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

3. What was Belinsky's father like?

4. How did censorship system work?

5. How did Herzen manifest the values he shared with his circle?

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