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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His theorizing.
(b) His symbolic descriptions.
(c) His chronicler of human experience.
(d) His moralizing.

2. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?
(a) A moral and intellectual vacuum.
(b) A thriving renaissance.
(c) A police state.
(d) A powder keg on the verge of revolution.

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

4. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Fulfilling individual experience.
(c) Searching for grand designs in events.
(d) Sharing experience between two people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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

3. What quality redeemed the characters based on Belinsky?

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

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

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