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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?
(a) After the death of the Tsar in 1881.
(b) After the abolition of serfdom in 1861.
(c) After the opening of the Trans-Siberia railroad in 1889.
(d) After the conviction of the Petrachevsky Circle.

2. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Alexander Pushkin.
(b) Nikolai Gogol.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Unique and popular.
(b) Earnest but unoriginal.
(c) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(d) Innovative but ineffectual.

4. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1848-1855.
(b) 1838-1848.
(c) 1855-1870.
(d) 1879-1896.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?

3. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?

4. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

5. Whose philosophy did Herzen follow?

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