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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Belinsky identify as the father of Russian literature?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Lermontov.

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

4. What was Tolstoy's opinion about his professors?
(a) Tolstoy believed that they contained the wealth of the world between themselves collectively.
(b) Tolstoy believed that they were undermining the aristocracy.
(c) Tolstoy believed that they wasted their time on trivialities.
(d) Tolstoy believed that they were fostering a revolutionary consciousness in their students.

5. How does Berlin ultimately characterize Turgenev?
(a) As a consummate philosopher-novelist.
(b) As the ultimate pluralist.
(c) As an articulate zealot.
(d) As an artist first and foremost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?

2. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

3. What sentiment ultimately moved the Populists?

4. How did Belinsky make a living?

5. Whose diatribes had influenced Turgenev's politics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What signs indicate the importance of Belinsky in Russian culture?

2. How did Belinsky see literature's use?

3. What balances did Belinsky strike in his social status and identity?

4. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky have?

5. What was the critical consensus on Tolstoy, and how does Berlin revise it?

6. How are Herzen and Turgenev similar? How are they different?

7. What course of action did Tolstoy advocate for intellectuals?

8. Why did Turgenev and Botkin despise Chernychevsky?

9. What does the term "superfluous men" mean in Russian literature?

10. What talent did Turgenev share with English poet John Keats?

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