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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His symbolic descriptions.
(b) His theorizing.
(c) His chronicler of human experience.
(d) His moralizing.

2. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?
(a) Herzen was susceptible to Bakunin's improvident optimism.
(b) Bakunin was inspired by Herzen's experience.
(c) Herzen was the better intellectual.
(d) Bakunin learned his theories under Herzen's tutelage.

3. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) Church power.
(b) Individual liberty.
(c) State power.
(d) Spiritual experience.

4. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?
(a) European nation-states.
(b) Native-American tribes.
(c) Peasant communes.
(d) Aristocratic fiefdoms.

5. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the Tsar's court.
(b) In the church.
(c) In books and letters.
(d) In the streets of Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?

2. What was the intellectual's role in the Populists' view?

3. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

4. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

5. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?

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