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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. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Mazzini.
(c) Mickiewicz.
(d) Herder.

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

3. Which character was based on Belinsky?
(a) Onegin in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
(b) Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
(c) Vronsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
(d) Basistov in Turgenev's Rudin.

4. 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) Political calculations.
(c) Society.
(d) Abstractions.

5. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"
(a) Turgenev saw Hegel's world spirit in the failure of reform movements in Russia.
(b) Turgenev rejected a world soul, but embraced the critique of materialism.
(c) Turgenev rejected materialism as the basis for political developments.
(d) Turgenev saw evolution as an inverse fulfillment of the Hegelian world-spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herzen's last name indicate about his birth?

2. What was Herzen anxious to avoid becoming?

3. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?

4. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

5. Where did de Maistre express his views?

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