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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. Who changed the consensus about Tolstoy?
(a) Chernyshevsky.
(b) Dobrolyubov.
(c) Mikhailovsky.
(d) Fet.

2. Whose diatribes had influenced Turgenev's politics?
(a) Dostoevsky's.
(b) Belinsky's.
(c) Herzen's.
(d) Bakunin's.

3. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He stepped down.
(b) He abandoned tradition.
(c) He adopted a series of reforms.
(d) He moved away from reform.

4. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
(a) Ivan Turgenev.
(b) Vissarion Belinksy.
(c) Pavel Annenkov.
(d) Alexander Herzen.

5. What view of Turgenev does Berlin say is misleading?
(a) The idea of Turgenev as an aristocrat in peasant's clothing.
(b) The idea of Turgenev as a prophet of the Russian Revolution.
(c) The idea of Turgenev as a literary writer drawn reluctantly into politics.
(d) The idea of Turgenev as a revolutionary under cover of a writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Fathers and Children received in Russia?

2. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

3. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?

4. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?

5. How was Turgenev's novels seen by the Russian government?

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