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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Industrialization.
(c) Romantic philosophy.
(d) Land reform.

2. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Pavel Annenkov.
(b) Alexander Herzen.
(c) Vissarion Belinksy.
(d) Ivan Turgenev.

3. What was Belinsky's father like?
(a) Belinsky's father was a gentleman farmer.
(b) Belinsky's father was a bureaucrat in the agriculture ministry.
(c) Belinsky's father was a retired naval doctor who drank.
(d) Belinsky's father was an engraver.

4. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?
(a) They had difficulty getting their work into print, because the censors were so strict.
(b) They could publish their work, but sometimes had to be vague about their political meanings.
(c) They published in underground magazines and pamphlets.
(d) They were free to publish political commentary and opinions without persecution.

5. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His philosophy of history.
(b) His moral vision.
(c) His acute social commentary.
(d) His detailed descriptions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

2. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

3. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?

4. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

5. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?

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