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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Remarkable Decade: Vissarion Belinsky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the streets of Moscow.
(b) In the church.
(c) In books and letters.
(d) In the Tsar's court.

2. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His moral vision.
(b) His detailed descriptions.
(c) His philosophy of history.
(d) His acute social commentary.

3. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?
(a) A lover.
(b) A German doctor.
(c) A liberal professor.
(d) An older writer.

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

5. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?
(a) Berlin describes Belinsky as the decadent gadfly of his generation.
(b) Berlin describes Belinsky as an aesthete whose decadence was in fashion for a few years.
(c) Berlin describes Belinsky as the father of social criticism.
(d) Berlin describes Belinsky as a revolutionary whose martyrdom inspired future revolutionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was de Maistre's position?

2. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

3. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?

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

5. How widely was Belinsky read?

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