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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 kind of position has Turgenev's legacy occupied in Russian society?
(a) Turgenev was turned into a martyr by the left.
(b) Turgenev has become a model gentleman farmer.
(c) Turgenev has been attacked by all sides of the political spectrum.
(d) Turgenev has been turned into a populist hero.

2. How widely was Belinsky read?
(a) Belinsky was read even in the Russian provinces.
(b) Belinsky was only known in small circles of Petersburg intelligentsia.
(c) Belinsky was known primarily in Europe.
(d) Belinsky was only known in small circles of Moscow intelligentsia.

3. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
(a) The property of landowners.
(b) Civil rights for serfs and peasants.
(c) Autocracy, religion and order.
(d) Opportunity and liberty.

4. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?
(a) Serfdom.
(b) Russian Orthodox traditions.
(c) Russian agricultural practices.
(d) The gloom of Russian philosophy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?

2. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

3. What did Belinsky find in literature?

4. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?

5. What sentiment ultimately moved the Populists?

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