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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Populists do in large scale in 1874?
(a) Publish a manifesto prophesying Communism.
(b) Study social organization in peasant communes.
(c) Begin a rebellion in Moscow.
(d) Declare independence from Russia.

2. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Politics was transposed onto literature.
(b) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.
(c) Literature reacted to political events.
(d) Literature prophesied political developments.

3. Who advocated Russian Populism?
(a) The Moscow Reform Party.
(b) A widespread group of radicals.
(c) The Second of April Committee.
(d) The Petersburg Literary Coterie.

4. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?
(a) As a shy aesthete.
(b) As a magnetic popularizer of other people's theories.
(c) As a highly original thinker.
(d) As a revolutionary filled with promise of his convictions.

5. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(b) Earnest but unoriginal.
(c) Innovative but ineffectual.
(d) Unique and popular.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

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

3. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

4. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?

5. Whose writings were populists influenced by?

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