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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. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Divine causes.
(b) Nations.
(c) History.
(d) Individual experience.

2. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Goncharov.
(c) Turgenev.
(d) Herzen.

3. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?
(a) Hegel's.
(b) Schelling's.
(c) Herzen's.
(d) Dostoevsky's.

4. What did Belinsky find in literature?
(a) Spiritual and emotional "ideas."
(b) Vicarious experiences.
(c) Evidence of a national race-life.
(d) Evidence of European superiority.

5. What balance did Herzen strike in his philosophy?
(a) A balance between revolutionary activities and aristocratic manners.
(b) A balance between political engagement and artistic remove.
(c) A balance between living naturally and making art.
(d) A balance between social justice and intellectual skepticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Belinsky's father like?

2. Whose philosophy did Herzen follow?

3. Which principles did Belinsky never abandon?

4. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?

5. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?

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