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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 was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?
(a) Belinsky was described as the conscience of his generation.
(b) Belinsky was described as Russia's retrograde conservative.
(c) Belinsky was described as the aesthete of his generation.
(d) Belinsky was described as Russia's most optimistic Romantic.

2. Which character was based on Belinsky?
(a) Basistov in Turgenev's Rudin.
(b) Vronsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
(c) Onegin in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
(d) Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.

3. Where did Tolstoy find the source of his philosophy?
(a) In the divine rights of government.
(b) In individual experience.
(c) In the divinity of the church.
(d) In the collective power of the government.

4. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Gogol.
(b) Stankevich.
(c) Goncharov.
(d) Herzen.

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the German invasion of 1848.
(b) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.
(c) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(d) With the Tsar's death in 1855.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

2. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

3. What ideas did Tolstoy believe in?

4. What do Herzen and Turgenev's novels have in common?

5. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?

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