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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 problem obsessed Turgenev during his life?
(a) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of European influence on Russian philosophy and literature.
(b) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of the sensitive man who has no influence on the events of his day.
(c) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of the landowner who cannot help his peasants without giving away his property.
(d) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of industrialization in a culture of hand-laborers.

2. How did Tolstoy get along with the literary salons?
(a) He fit right in with his wit and quick tongue and aphorisms.
(b) He was often at odds with critics, and he became famous for his quarrels.
(c) He longed for attention but was uncomfortable in the salons' scrutinizing eyes.
(d) He made them uncomfortable because he knew that real life was lived in nature.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term of contempt did Tolstoy use for writing he disliked?

2. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?

3. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

5. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

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