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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 Herzen's last name indicate about his birth?
(a) Herzen was a noble name, and indicates his high birth.
(b) Herzen's father was common name for Latvian emigrants to Russia to adopt.
(c) Herzen means heart in German, and indicates his illegitimacy.
(d) Herzen was a German name, indicating that his parents had immigrated to Russia.

2. What was Belinsky like in a debate?
(a) Frigidly rational.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Bombastic and offensive.
(d) Furious.

3. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) Intense Slavophilia.
(b) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(c) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.
(d) A decrease in censorship.

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

5. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?
(a) The notion that some must die for society to progress.
(b) The notion that the mind is fed only by direct sensory experience.
(c) The notion that Romanic idealism would triumph in workers' collectives.
(d) The notion that Europeans are superior to Russians and others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?

3. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

4. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?

5. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?

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