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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(b) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(c) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.
(d) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.

2. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?
(a) Darwin and Marx.
(b) Fourier and Mill.
(c) Kant and Hume.
(d) Locke and Rousseau.

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

4. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Mazzini.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Herder.
(d) Mickiewicz.

5. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Reforms in land ownership and use.
(b) Selfish aristocrats.
(c) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(d) Anarchist mobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?

2. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

3. What was Belinsky like in a debate?

4. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

5. Where was Herzen born?

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