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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 Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Having too much insight as an artist.
(b) Not having an overarching vision.
(c) Having too much wealth as a landowner.
(d) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.

2. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He adopted a series of reforms.
(b) He moved away from reform.
(c) He stepped down.
(d) He abandoned tradition.

3. How widely was Belinsky read?
(a) Belinsky was read even in the Russian provinces.
(b) Belinsky was known primarily in Europe.
(c) Belinsky was only known in small circles of Petersburg intelligentsia.
(d) Belinsky was only known in small circles of Moscow intelligentsia.

4. How did censorship system work?
(a) It was a double censorship system.
(b) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(c) It relied on writers' self-censorship.
(d) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"

2. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?

3. What group was Herzen part of in university?

4. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

5. Whom did Belinsky identify as the father of Russian literature?

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