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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. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?
(a) 1817
(b) 1825.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1809.

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

3. Whose writings were populists influenced by?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Gogol.
(d) Belinsky.

4. How did Herzen manifest the values he shared with his circle?
(a) Herzen founded a revolutionary syndicate.
(b) Herzen drank and gambled, and dabbled in tales that described his exploits.
(c) Herzen moved to Europe to write.
(d) Herzen wrote anti-Tsarist propaganda.

5. What did Herzen believe was the "goal" of life?
(a) Social justice.
(b) Political equality for everyone.
(c) Art.
(d) Life itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?

2. What did Turgenev try to do with the novel he published five years after Fathers and Children?

3. Where was Herzen born?

4. What view of Turgenev does Berlin say is misleading?

5. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

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