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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?
(a) Native-American tribes.
(b) Aristocratic fiefdoms.
(c) Peasant communes.
(d) European nation-states.

2. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?
(a) Censors told writers what to write.
(b) Censors intimidated writers who wrote subversive material.
(c) Censors looked for subversive ideas.
(d) Censors persecuted the families of authors.

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?
(a) Herzen was the better intellectual.
(b) Bakunin was inspired by Herzen's experience.
(c) Bakunin learned his theories under Herzen's tutelage.
(d) Herzen was susceptible to Bakunin's improvident optimism.

4. What was Belinsky like in a debate?
(a) Bombastic and offensive.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Frigidly rational.
(d) Furious.

5. According to Berlin, why is there not a good biography of Alexander Herzen?
(a) Because Herzen's autobiography is so remarkable.
(b) Because Herzen destroyed all of his papers.
(c) Because Herzen's papers were all lost in a fire.
(d) Because Herzen's biographers were censored by the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?

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

3. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?

4. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

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

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