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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 philosophy did Herzen follow?
(a) Rousseau's.
(b) Hegel's.
(c) Plato's.
(d) Marx'.

2. What archetype was Levin in Anna Karenina an example of?
(a) The successful poet-visionary.
(b) The hard-working laborer.
(c) The unspoiled innocent.
(d) The gentleman farmer.

3. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Ivan Turgenev.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

4. 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 a revolutionary under cover of a writer.
(c) The idea of Turgenev as an aristocrat in peasant's clothing.
(d) The idea of Turgenev as a prophet of the Russian Revolution.

5. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?
(a) Locke and Rousseau.
(b) Fourier and Mill.
(c) Kant and Hume.
(d) Darwin and Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

2. Where did Tolstoy find the source of his philosophy?

3. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

4. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?

5. How did authors fare in the mid-nineteenth-century Russian literary scene?

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