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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?
(a) Vissarion Belinksy.
(b) Nicholas Stankevich.
(c) Pavel Annenkov.
(d) Nikolai Gogol.

3. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a famous playwright.
(b) He was an effective publicist.
(c) He was a censor in the government.
(d) He was an education minister.

4. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?
(a) Censors told writers what to write.
(b) Censors persecuted the families of authors.
(c) Censors looked for subversive ideas.
(d) Censors intimidated writers who wrote subversive material.

5. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?
(a) Schelling's.
(b) Hegel's.
(c) Dostoevsky's.
(d) Herzen's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?

2. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?

3. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?

4. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?

5. Which thinker affected Herzen?

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