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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What program did Tolstoy advocate?
(a) Tolstoy advocated a program in which aristocrats benefited from the labor of their peasants.
(b) Tolstoy advocated a program in which individuals share the fruits of civilization with the peasants.
(c) Tolstoy advocated a program in which dissidents should be exiled to Siberia or America.
(d) Tolstoy advocated a program in which the peasants rule themselves without hierarchy.

2. Where did Tolstoy find the source of his philosophy?
(a) In the divine rights of government.
(b) In the collective power of the government.
(c) In the divinity of the church.
(d) In individual experience.

3. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Nicholas II.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Charles.
(d) Nicholas I.

4. How was Turgenev's novels seen by the Russian government?
(a) Turgenev's novels were charming and harmless.
(b) Turgenev's novels were banned as subversive.
(c) Turgenev's novels were not safe.
(d) Turgenev's novels represented the ideal Russian society.

5. What term of contempt did Tolstoy use for writing he disliked?
(a) Made up.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Political.
(d) Populist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?

2. What was Belinsky's father like?

3. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

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

5. What was Herzen anxious to avoid becoming?

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