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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. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Stankevich.
(c) Goncharov.
(d) Gogol.

2. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?
(a) Romantic philosophy.
(b) Land reform.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Urbanization.

3. What did Herzen understand that the revolutionaries did not understand?
(a) The corrupting nature of power.
(b) The cost of revolutionary change.
(c) The power of the aristocracy.
(d) The hellish nature of armed conflict.

4. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?
(a) Conservative Romantics believed that progress was a trap, and that the only way out would be to develop Russian nationalism.
(b) Conservative Romantics believed that the best progress was a return to traditional Russian values.
(c) Conservative Romantics believed that mechanical reforms would not work without a deep understanding of the Russian soul
(d) Conservative Romantics believed that intellectuals could thrive without changing the aristocratic government.

5. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Ivan Turgenev.
(b) Pavel Annenkov.
(c) Vissarion Belinksy.
(d) Alexander Herzen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

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

3. Whom did Belinsky identify as the father of Russian literature?

4. What was Herzen anxious to avoid becoming?

5. What values did Herzen share with the group he was part of?

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