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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose writings were populists influenced by?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Belinsky.
(c) Gogol.
(d) Dostoevsky.

2. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?
(a) He believed that English universities were the best, but he also believed that they were too expensive.
(b) He believed that German universities were safer than French universities.
(c) He believed that German universities would not instill any revolutionary ideas in Russian students.
(d) He believed that German universities would give Russian students a good foundation in Slavic culture.

3. What quality redeemed the characters based on Belinsky?
(a) Simple kindness.
(b) Self-defeating clumsiness.
(c) Intense moral convictions.
(d) World-weariness.

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?
(a) Berlin describes him as writer of no lasting importance.
(b) Berlin describes him as censor who had a powerful effect on Russian literature.
(c) Berlin describes him as a moral thinker of the first importance.
(d) Berlin describes him as a theorist whose ideas were popular for a short time.

5. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Plato.
(b) Marx.
(c) Hume.
(d) Hegel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?

2. What does the Russian word "obshcnina" mean?

3. What was Belinsky's father like?

4. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

5. When was Herzen born?

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