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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His theorizing.
(b) His moralizing.
(c) His chronicler of human experience.
(d) His symbolic descriptions.

2. What was the intellectual's role in the Populists' view?
(a) Intellectuals should work side by side with workers to undermine the aristocracy.
(b) Intellectuals should disseminate propaganda idealizing peasant communes.
(c) Intellectuals should remain aloof from social transformation.
(d) Intellectuals should give their lives to social reform.

3. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His moral vision.
(b) His acute social commentary.
(c) His philosophy of history.
(d) His detailed descriptions.

4. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Nikolai Gogol.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

5. What quality redeemed the characters based on Belinsky?
(a) Self-defeating clumsiness.
(b) World-weariness.
(c) Intense moral convictions.
(d) Simple kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

2. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?

3. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?

4. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky possess?

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

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