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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

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

3. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Molotov anarchists.
(b) The Moscow threat.
(c) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(d) The Decembrists.

4. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?
(a) His world spirit seemed to prophesy the Russian Revolution.
(b) His quasi-religious philosophy gave atheistic students something they could believe in.
(c) His theory of history seemed to predict Russian nationalism.
(d) His idealism seemed like an escape from the squalor of Russia.

5. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In proselytizing for the church.
(b) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(c) In conspiring against the government.
(d) In their writing and activism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea captured the imagination of the Russian intelligentsia?

2. How did Belinsky make a living?

3. What does the Russian word "obshcnina" mean?

4. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?

5. Which principles did Belinsky never abandon?

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