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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?
(a) Fourier and Mill.
(b) Darwin and Marx.
(c) Kant and Hume.
(d) Locke and Rousseau.

3. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
(a) He liked the notion of a godless world motivated by individual actions.
(b) He liked the idea of a total divinity that determined every detail of the universe.
(c) He liked the concept of a clocklike divinity and an ordered universe.
(d) He liked the idea of a spiritual core to human society.

4. What value came first for Herzen?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Equality of the sexes.
(c) Human dignity.
(d) Social justice.

5. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(b) World War I.
(c) The decline of Europe.
(d) The Thirty Years War.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Herzen see history?

2. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

3. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

4. Whose writings were populists influenced by?

5. Who was the most important leader among the Russian Populists?

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