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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. Where was Belinsky born?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Finland.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Minsk.

2. How does Berlin describe Bakunin?
(a) As a highly original thinker.
(b) As a magnetic popularizer of other people's theories.
(c) As a shy aesthete.
(d) As a revolutionary filled with promise of his convictions.

3. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?
(a) The Thirty-Years' War.
(b) The revolution failed.
(c) A new era of peace.
(d) Napoleonic wars.

4. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?
(a) He declared martial law.
(b) He gave serfs and women the right to vote.
(c) He repressed all signs of dissent and unorthodoxy.
(d) He imprisoned his former supporters.

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His theorizing.
(b) His moralizing.
(c) His chronicler of human experience.
(d) His symbolic descriptions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

2. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

3. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

4. What values did Herzen share with the group he was part of?

5. What Populist warning did Lenin's reign fulfill?

(see the answer key)

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