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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who advocated Russian Populism?
(a) A widespread group of radicals.
(b) The Second of April Committee.
(c) The Petersburg Literary Coterie.
(d) The Moscow Reform Party.

2. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?
(a) Berlin describes Belinsky as the father of social criticism.
(b) Berlin describes Belinsky as the decadent gadfly of his generation.
(c) Berlin describes Belinsky as a revolutionary whose martyrdom inspired future revolutionaries.
(d) Berlin describes Belinsky as an aesthete whose decadence was in fashion for a few years.

3. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Ivan Turgenev.

4. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?
(a) A type of social criticism.
(b) A code for illicit communications.
(c) Personal-philosophical essays.
(d) Communes.

5. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Archilochus.
(b) Solon.
(c) Plato.
(d) Plotinus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

2. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

3. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

4. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

5. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

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