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

2. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Thirty Years War.
(c) The decline of Europe.
(d) The triumph of Communism in Russia.

3. What does the Russian word "Mir" mean?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Russian laws.
(c) A political party.
(d) Collective of communes.

4. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.

5. Whose failures did the leader of the Populists reject?
(a) Herzen's.
(b) Gogol's.
(c) Bakunin's.
(d) Dostoevsky's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What value came first for Herzen?

3. What sentiment ultimately moved the Populists?

4. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?

5. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

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