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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 did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
(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 manifest the universe's latent desires.

2. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Divine causes.
(b) Nations.
(c) Individual experience.
(d) History.

3. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(b) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(c) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(d) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.

4. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
(a) As shy and shrinking.
(b) As polarizing.
(c) As magnetic.
(d) As luminous.

5. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.
(b) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.
(c) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(d) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Berlin, why is there not a good biography of Alexander Herzen?

2. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?

3. What balance did Belinsky strike in his career?

4. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

5. How was Herzen seen by the revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s?

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