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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?
(a) Bakunin learned his theories under Herzen's tutelage.
(b) Bakunin was inspired by Herzen's experience.
(c) Herzen was the better intellectual.
(d) Herzen was susceptible to Bakunin's improvident optimism.

2. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?
(a) Aristocratic fiefdoms.
(b) Native-American tribes.
(c) European nation-states.
(d) Peasant communes.

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Plato and Plotinus.
(b) Hume and Locke.
(c) Flaubert and Rousseau.
(d) Fichte and Schelling.

4. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?
(a) Industrial cities.
(b) Inherited aristocracy.
(c) Artists and bohemians.
(d) Organized opposition parties, a middle class.

5. What was the intellectual's role in the Populists' view?
(a) Intellectuals should disseminate propaganda idealizing peasant communes.
(b) Intellectuals should remain aloof from social transformation.
(c) Intellectuals should give their lives to social reform.
(d) Intellectuals should work side by side with workers to undermine the aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

2. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?

3. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?

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

5. Where was Belinsky born?

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