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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 do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Abstractions.
(b) Political calculations.
(c) Society.
(d) The concreteness of experience.

2. Where was Belinsky born?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Finland.

3. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?
(a) Granovsky.
(b) Bakunin.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Turgenev.

4. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?
(a) Alexander Pushkin.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Nikolai Gogol.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What balance did Belinsky strike in his career?

2. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"

3. What advantages did Hegel's theories have for Bakunin?

4. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?

5. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?

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