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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?
(a) After the abolition of serfdom in 1861.
(b) After the opening of the Trans-Siberia railroad in 1889.
(c) After the death of the Tsar in 1881.
(d) After the conviction of the Petrachevsky Circle.

2. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In their writing and activism.
(b) In proselytizing for the church.
(c) In conspiring against the government.
(d) In censoring anti-religious writing.

3. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?
(a) Belinsky was described as the conscience of his generation.
(b) Belinsky was described as Russia's most optimistic Romantic.
(c) Belinsky was described as Russia's retrograde conservative.
(d) Belinsky was described as the aesthete of his generation.

4. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.
(b) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(c) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(d) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.

5. What was Herzen anxious to avoid becoming?
(a) An over-educated dilettante.
(b) A political prisoner.
(c) A bureaucrat.
(d) A husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herzen's last name indicate about his birth?

2. Whose failures did the leader of the Populists reject?

3. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

4. How did Herzen manifest the values he shared with his circle?

5. What did Populists do in large scale in 1874?

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