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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Tolstoy go to university?
2. Which character was based on Belinsky?
3. What term of contempt did Tolstoy use for writing he disliked?
4. What values did Herzen share with the group he was part of?
5. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What talent did Turgenev share with English poet John Keats?
2. Who was Nikolay Chernychevsky and what was his role in Russian culture?
3. Where did Alexander Herzen come from?
4. What Western thinkers influenced Populism?
5. How was Turgenev's work viewed at the end of his life?
6. Where did characters based on Belinsky appear in Russian literature?
7. What was Herzen's early activist career like?
8. Why did Turgenev and Botkin despise Chernychevsky?
9. What was Tolstoy's social life like after graduating from university?
10. Why did Turgenev's character Bazarov inspire such strong responses from audiences?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Berlin's own life and times affect his writing about the writers and activists whose portraits he drew in Russian Thinkers? In what ways might Berlin have been trying to identify ideas that would be useful for him in his own time--after WWII and Viet Nam--in addition to identifying the ideas that motivated the Russian writers, populists, Romantics to try to change Russian culture?
Essay Topic 2
What cultural factors made the Russian populists so popular at first and then so ineffective? Why were populist leaders so out of touch that when populists went to the communes in 1874, the peasants rebuffed them whose organization they idealized?
Essay Topic 3
Berlin uses the adage of the fox and the hedgehog to describe Tolstoy as a materialist who saw the value of being an idealist, but in Tolstoy's works, the authorial eye could only see the grand designs, never by the characters. Which characters tried to see the design behind events? Which authors did not? Which authors were successful?
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