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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tolstoy and Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1848-1855.
(b) 1838-1848.
(c) 1879-1896.
(d) 1855-1870.

2. What did Populists do in large scale in 1874?
(a) Publish a manifesto prophesying Communism.
(b) Declare independence from Russia.
(c) Begin a rebellion in Moscow.
(d) Study social organization in peasant communes.

3. Which principles did Belinsky never abandon?
(a) German Romanticism.
(b) Russian Nationalism.
(c) English Humanism.
(d) French Decadence.

4. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?
(a) Artists are the saviors and redeemers of culture.
(b) Artists are prophets whose lives are instructive to the masses.
(c) Artists are only legitimate if they are bohemian: sloppy and irresponsible.
(d) Moral faults in the artist do not affect the artwork.

5. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) They shared similar views.
(b) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.
(c) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(d) They were co-conspirators.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Populists differ from Marxists?

2. What did Belinsky find in literature?

3. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

4. Where did Tolstoy go to university?

5. How widely was Belinsky read?

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