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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were Tolstoy's early stories received?
(a) They were not noticed until after his death.
(b) They made him an instant celebrity.
(c) They earned him a reputation as a promising writer.
(d) They were banned.

2. What has the consensus been about Leo Tolstoy?
(a) That he was really a cleric, more than a novelist.
(b) That he was ahead of his time as a thinker.
(c) That he was a brilliant novelist but a bad thinker.
(d) That he was more of a philosopher than a novelist.

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

4. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
(a) Crabby and self-defeating.
(b) Gloomy and pessimistic.
(c) Reform-minded and logical.
(d) Romantic and progressive.

5. Who was Tolstoy's sole close friend?
(a) Mikhailovsky.
(b) Chernyshevsky.
(c) Dobrolyubov.
(d) Fet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most important leader among the Russian Populists?

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

3. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?

4. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?

5. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

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