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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Russian Populism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
(a) As luminous.
(b) As polarizing.
(c) As magnetic.
(d) As shy and shrinking.

2. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?
(a) After the conviction of the Petrachevsky Circle.
(b) After the death of the Tsar in 1881.
(c) After the opening of the Trans-Siberia railroad in 1889.
(d) After the abolition of serfdom in 1861.

3. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Literature reacted to political events.
(b) Politics was transposed onto literature.
(c) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.
(d) Literature prophesied political developments.

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

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?
(a) He sees Herzen as a founder of Russian literature.
(b) He sees Herzen as a momentary celebrity.
(c) He sees Herzen as overvalued.
(d) He sees Herzen as underestimated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Russian word "obshcnina" mean?

2. Whose writings were populists influenced by?

3. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?

4. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

5. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?

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