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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tolstoy and Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1838-1848.
(b) 1879-1896.
(c) 1848-1855.
(d) 1855-1870.

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

3. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1825.

4. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Nations.
(b) History.
(c) Individual experience.
(d) Divine causes.

5. What did Herzen believe was the "goal" of life?
(a) Political equality for everyone.
(b) Art.
(c) Social justice.
(d) Life itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?

2. What program did Tolstoy advocate?

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

4. How did Herzen see history?

5. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

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