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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?
(a) Serious critic.
(b) Essayist and revolutionary.
(c) Intellectual tourist.
(d) Writer and activist.

2. When was Herzen born?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1812.

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

4. Who was Joseph de Maistre?
(a) An educated courtier.
(b) A bureaucrat on the censorship committee.
(c) A conspirator against the Tsar.
(d) A poor writer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?

3. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

4. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

5. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

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