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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 the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Literature reacted to political events.
(b) Literature prophesied political developments.
(c) Politics was transposed onto literature.
(d) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.

2. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(b) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(c) It had always been a role in Russian society.
(d) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.

3. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?
(a) Kant and Hume.
(b) Locke and Rousseau.
(c) Darwin and Marx.
(d) Fourier and Mill.

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

5. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?
(a) The arts are the last thing to change in a culture.
(b) Writers capture the times better than sociologists do.
(c) Idealism lives in literature but grows old and dies in prison.
(d) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How widely was Belinsky read?

2. Where was Belinsky born?

3. Which character was based on Belinsky?

4. Where was Herzen educated?

5. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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