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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.

2. What does the Russian word "Mir" mean?
(a) Freedom.
(b) A political party.
(c) Russian laws.
(d) Collective of communes.

3. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky possess?
(a) Dreamy romanticism.
(b) Diabolical political stances.
(c) Awkward earnestness.
(d) Nihilistic recklessness.

4. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Hume and Locke.
(b) Fichte and Schelling.
(c) Plato and Plotinus.
(d) Flaubert and Rousseau.

5. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Abstractions.
(b) Society.
(c) Political calculations.
(d) The concreteness of experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?

2. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?

3. What sentiment ultimately moved the Populists?

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

5. What was Herzen anxious to avoid becoming?

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