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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 does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?
(a) Artists are only legitimate if they are bohemian: sloppy and irresponsible.
(b) Moral faults in the artist do not affect the artwork.
(c) Artists are prophets whose lives are instructive to the masses.
(d) Artists are the saviors and redeemers of culture.

2. What forces dominated Herzen's world?
(a) American pragmatism.
(b) French and German romanticism.
(c) English humanism.
(d) Roman republicanism.

3. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
(a) He liked the idea of a total divinity that determined every detail of the universe.
(b) He liked the notion of a godless world motivated by individual actions.
(c) He liked the concept of a clocklike divinity and an ordered universe.
(d) He liked the idea of a spiritual core to human society.

4. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Nicholas II.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Charles.
(d) Nicholas I.

5. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1825.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

2. When did Vissarion Belinsky die?

3. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?

4. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

5. Which thinker affected Herzen?

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