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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Russian Populism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Pavel Annenkov.
(b) Alexander Herzen.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Vissarion Belinksy.

2. How did Belinsky make a living?
(a) Belinsky made a living as a bureaucrat and wrote in his spare time.
(b) Belinsky made a living as tanner.
(c) Belinksy was a nobleman who worked only on his writing.
(d) Belinsky made a living as a hack writer.

3. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
(a) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.
(b) It made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.
(c) It made them hungry for violent rebellion and abrupt social change.
(d) It made them dissolute and morally bankrupt.

4. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?
(a) Pavel Annenkov.
(b) Nicholas Stankevich.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Vissarion Belinksy.

5. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?
(a) He gave serfs and women the right to vote.
(b) He imprisoned his former supporters.
(c) He declared martial law.
(d) He repressed all signs of dissent and unorthodoxy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

2. How was Herzen seen by the revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s?

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?

4. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

5. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

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