Russian Thinkers Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Russian Thinkers Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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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 Populist warning did Lenin's reign fulfill?
(a) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that a revolution of the elite would result in a dictatorship of that elite.
(b) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that the people would prosper under autocratic rule.
(c) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that a popular movement would kneel before a charismatic dictator.
(d) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that the people would not be happy under any leader who led more than one collective.

2. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?
(a) Progressive Romantics believed that society was inevitably moving forward.
(b) Progressive Romantics believed that serfs would free themselves through violence.
(c) Progressive Romantics believed that progress was going to come from industry and social reforms.
(d) Progressive Romantics believed that intellectuals were responsible for the soul of the nation.

3. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?
(a) The notion that some must die for society to progress.
(b) The notion that Europeans are superior to Russians and others.
(c) The notion that Romanic idealism would triumph in workers' collectives.
(d) The notion that the mind is fed only by direct sensory experience.

4. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?
(a) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
(b) Idealism lives in literature but grows old and dies in prison.
(c) Writers capture the times better than sociologists do.
(d) The arts are the last thing to change in a culture.

5. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Second of April Committee.
(b) The Comintern.
(c) The Decembrist Committee.
(d) The Homeland Purity Committee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Belinsky make a living?

2. Which thinker affected Herzen?

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

4. How did the Populists differ from Marxists?

5. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?

(see the answer key)

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