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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. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1809.

2. What forces dominated Herzen's world?
(a) Roman republicanism.
(b) American pragmatism.
(c) French and German romanticism.
(d) English humanism.

3. How did Herzen manifest the values he shared with his circle?
(a) Herzen founded a revolutionary syndicate.
(b) Herzen moved to Europe to write.
(c) Herzen wrote anti-Tsarist propaganda.
(d) Herzen drank and gambled, and dabbled in tales that described his exploits.

4. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Solon.
(b) Archilochus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Plotinus.

5. What values did Herzen share with the group he was part of?
(a) Herzen and his circle exorcised their guilt at being landowners by drinking and gambling and generally dissipating themselves.
(b) Herzen and his circle wanted to escape from Russian life into aesthetics and decadent Western art.
(c) Herzen and his circle felt compelled to respond radically to Russia's stifling culture.
(d) Herzen and his circle believed that historical progress would sweep away the aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

2. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

3. What group was Herzen part of in university?

4. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?

5. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

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