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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 balance did Belinsky strike in his career?
(a) Belinsky's life balanced between literature and farming.
(b) Belinsky's life balanced between violence with restraint.
(c) Belinsky's life balanced between aristocracy and rusticity.
(d) Belinsky's life balanced between progress and conservatism.

2. Where did Tolstoy go to university?
(a) The University of Petersburg.
(b) The University of Moscow.
(c) The University of Kazan.
(d) The University of Berlin.

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Hume.
(d) Marx.

4. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?
(a) They saw themselves as aesthetes separate from questions of politics.
(b) They saw themselves as proselytes, spreading a gospel of reason and faith in the arts.
(c) They saw themselves as nationalists, building a new industrial nation out of the ruins of the feudal system.
(d) They saw themselves as a secular priesthood undertaking a sacred mission of enlightenment.

5. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.
(b) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(c) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(d) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

2. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

4. What archetype was Levin in Anna Karenina an example of?

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

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