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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?
(a) As a magnetic popularizer of other people's theories.
(b) As a revolutionary filled with promise of his convictions.
(c) As a shy aesthete.
(d) As a highly original thinker.

2. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) State power.
(b) Spiritual experience.
(c) Church power.
(d) Individual liberty.

3. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(b) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(c) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(d) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.

4. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?
(a) Schelling's.
(b) Herzen's.
(c) Hegel's.
(d) Dostoevsky's.

5. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Ivan Turgenev.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?

2. Where was Belinsky born?

3. What does the Russian word "Mir" mean?

4. How did Herzen apply the philosophy of the philosopher whose work he followed?

5. What balance did Herzen strike in his philosophy?

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