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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. When did Vissarion Belinsky die?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1856.

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

3. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) The concreteness of experience.
(b) Society.
(c) Political calculations.
(d) Abstractions.

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Selfish aristocrats.
(b) Reforms in land ownership and use.
(c) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(d) Anarchist mobs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

4. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

5. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

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