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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?
(a) He described the moral plan of the universe in symbolic language.
(b) He presented life in detail, but developed an overarching moral vision.
(c) He subscribed to an abstract vision of life, but tried to present life in detail.
(d) He presented life in detail, with each detail providing evidence of an overarching universal plan.

2. Which principles did Belinsky never abandon?
(a) English Humanism.
(b) Russian Nationalism.
(c) French Decadence.
(d) German Romanticism.

3. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Goncharov.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Stankevich.

4. When did Vissarion Belinsky die?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1862.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What balance did Belinsky strike in his career?

2. How did Herzen apply the philosophy of the philosopher whose work he followed?

3. What does the Russian word "Mir" mean?

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

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

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