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

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

3. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His chronicler of human experience.
(b) His symbolic descriptions.
(c) His theorizing.
(d) His moralizing.

4. What advantages did Hegel's theories have for Bakunin?
(a) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his optimism in Russia's future.
(b) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify aesthetics and physical labor.
(c) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his loathing of Russian politics.
(d) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify both rebellion and obedience.

5. How did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(b) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.
(c) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.
(d) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Herzen's parents?

2. What were de Maistre's views?

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?

4. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

5. What did Herzen understand that the revolutionaries did not understand?

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