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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What qualities did the most important leader of the Russian Populists have that made him successful?
(a) A magnetic almost messianic personality.
(b) A brilliant intellect.
(c) A talent for collecting details and making concrete plans.
(d) An eloquent writing and speaking style.

2. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?
(a) American Transcendentalism.
(b) German Romanticism.
(c) English Humanism.
(d) American Pragmatism.

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

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

5. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?
(a) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
(b) Idealism lives in literature but grows old and dies in prison.
(c) Writers capture the times better than sociologists do.
(d) The arts are the last thing to change in a culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

2. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

4. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

5. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

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