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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 value came first for Herzen?
(a) Social justice.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Human dignity.
(d) Equality of the sexes.

2. How did Herzen apply the philosophy of the philosopher whose work he followed?
(a) Herzen wasted his time on drinking and gambling as a rebellion against a rational society.
(b) Herzen applied theories methodically and pragmatically to social problems.
(c) Herzen concluded that no one grand theory could solve society's problems.
(d) Herzen found beauty in nature, and tried to escape from a corrupt society.

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Fichte and Schelling.
(b) Flaubert and Rousseau.
(c) Plato and Plotinus.
(d) Hume and Locke.

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

5. Where was Herzen born?
(a) Petersburg.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Pinsk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?

3. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

4. What did Belinsky find in literature?

5. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?

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