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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Goncharov.

2. What mistake did Tsar Nicholas I make about European universities?
(a) He believed that English universities were the best, but he also believed that they were too expensive.
(b) He believed that German universities would give Russian students a good foundation in Slavic culture.
(c) He believed that German universities were safer than French universities.
(d) He believed that German universities would not instill any revolutionary ideas in Russian students.

3. How was Turgenev's novels seen by the Russian government?
(a) Turgenev's novels represented the ideal Russian society.
(b) Turgenev's novels were banned as subversive.
(c) Turgenev's novels were charming and harmless.
(d) Turgenev's novels were not safe.

4. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Molotov anarchists.
(b) The Moscow threat.
(c) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(d) The Decembrists.

5. What qualities did the most important leader of the Russian Populists have that made him successful?
(a) An eloquent writing and speaking style.
(b) A talent for collecting details and making concrete plans.
(c) A brilliant intellect.
(d) A magnetic almost messianic personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Turgenev received by the radicals of the 1860s and 70s?

2. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?

3. How did Herzen see history?

4. How widely was Belinsky read?

5. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

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