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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 view of Turgenev does Berlin say is misleading?
(a) The idea of Turgenev as a literary writer drawn reluctantly into politics.
(b) The idea of Turgenev as an aristocrat in peasant's clothing.
(c) The idea of Turgenev as a revolutionary under cover of a writer.
(d) The idea of Turgenev as a prophet of the Russian Revolution.
2. What group was Herzen part of in university?
(a) Herzen belonged to a group of student radicals.
(b) Herzen was part of the Petrachevsky circle.
(c) Herzen was one of Turgenev's "superfluous men."
(d) Herzen was one of Belinsky's proteges.
3. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.
4. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
(a) It was coined by the press during the Dreyfus Affair.
(b) It had always been a role in Russian society.
(c) It was invented in the mid-1800s.
(d) The Tsar had used it to demean effete thinkers.
5. What social movement did the Russian Intelligentsia contribute to?
(a) A new round of social reforms.
(b) The Russian Revolution.
(c) Slavophilia.
(d) Jingoism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What balance did Belinsky strike in his career?
2. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
3. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
4. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
5. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?
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