1. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?
(a) He described the moral plan of the universe in symbolic language.
(b) He presented life in detail, with each detail providing evidence of an overarching universal plan.
(c) He subscribed to an abstract vision of life, but tried to present life in detail.
(d) He presented life in detail, but developed an overarching moral vision.

2. What did Belinsky find in literature?
(a) Spiritual and emotional "ideas."
(b) Vicarious experiences.
(c) Evidence of a national race-life.
(d) Evidence of European superiority.

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

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

5. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(b) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.
(c) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(d) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.