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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose failures did the leader of the Populists reject?
(a) Herzen's.
(b) Bakunin's.
(c) Gogol's.
(d) Dostoevsky's.

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?
(a) Berlin describes him as a theorist whose ideas were popular for a short time.
(b) Berlin describes him as a moral thinker of the first importance.
(c) Berlin describes him as writer of no lasting importance.
(d) Berlin describes him as censor who had a powerful effect on Russian literature.

3. Who was the most important leader among the Russian Populists?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Gogol.
(d) Chernyshevsky.

4. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?
(a) They were free to publish political commentary and opinions without persecution.
(b) They could publish their work, but sometimes had to be vague about their political meanings.
(c) They published in underground magazines and pamphlets.
(d) They had difficulty getting their work into print, because the censors were so strict.

5. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.
(b) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.
(c) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(d) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?

2. What was the intellectual's role in the Populists' view?

3. What value came first for Herzen?

4. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

5. What Populist warning did Lenin's reign fulfill?

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