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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It had always been a role in Russian society.
(b) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(c) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(d) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.

2. How was Herzen seen by the revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s?
(a) Herzen was dismissed as a salon-talker.
(b) Herzen was portrayed as a father of Russian literature.
(c) Herzen was seen as an inspiring revolutionary.
(d) Herzen was seen as a decadent aesthete.

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

4. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?
(a) The peasants' plight.
(b) The industrialization of Russia.
(c) The decline of the rents on his estate.
(d) The Populist threat to the aristocracy.

5. What advantages did Hegel's theories have for Bakunin?
(a) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify aesthetics and physical labor.
(b) Hegel's contradictions let Bakunin justify both rebellion and obedience.
(c) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his optimism in Russia's future.
(d) Hegel's idealism let Bakunin justify his loathing of Russian politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

2. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?

3. What did Herzen believe was the "goal" of life?

4. What did Belinsky find in literature?

5. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky possess?

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