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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 dominant philosophical movement of the second quarter of the nineteenth century in Russia?
(a) American Pragmatism.
(b) German Romanticism.
(c) American Transcendentalism.
(d) English Humanism.

2. How was Herzen seen by the revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s?
(a) Herzen was portrayed as a father of Russian literature.
(b) Herzen was seen as an inspiring revolutionary.
(c) Herzen was seen as a decadent aesthete.
(d) Herzen was dismissed as a salon-talker.

3. How did Tolstoy understand the concept of truth?
(a) Truth was relative.
(b) Truth was defined by the church and government.
(c) Truth was eternal.
(d) Truth was rooted in contingent experience.

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

5. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?
(a) The peasants' plight.
(b) The industrialization of Russia.
(c) The decline of the rents on his estate.
(d) The Populist threat to the aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Berlin, why is there not a good biography of Alexander Herzen?

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

3. Where did de Maistre express his views?

4. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky possess?

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

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