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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 was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(b) Intense Slavophilia.
(c) A decrease in censorship.
(d) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.

2. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(b) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.
(c) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(d) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.

3. What does the Russian word "obshcnina" mean?
(a) Inherited customs.
(b) Peasant communes.
(c) Aristocratic privileges.
(d) Russian territories.

4. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(b) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
(c) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(d) It had always been a role in Russian society.

5. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Mickiewicz.
(b) Herder.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Mazzini.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

3. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?

4. What value came first for Herzen?

5. How did the Populists differ from Marxists?

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