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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. What did Populists do in large scale in 1874?
(a) Begin a rebellion in Moscow.
(b) Declare independence from Russia.
(c) Study social organization in peasant communes.
(d) Publish a manifesto prophesying Communism.

2. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?
(a) The decline of the rents on his estate.
(b) The Populist threat to the aristocracy.
(c) The industrialization of Russia.
(d) The peasants' plight.

3. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.
(b) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(c) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(d) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.

4. Who was the most important leader among the Russian Populists?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Chernyshevsky.

5. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?
(a) After traveling to Europe, Tolstoy became contemptuous of European "expertise."
(b) Tolstoy's friendship with European writers showed him the inevitability of revolutionary change.
(c) From his reading of European thinkers, Tolstoy saw the flaws in Russian society.
(d) Tolstoy's travels throughout Europe showed him the superior forms of social organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

3. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?

4. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

5. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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