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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. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Divine causes.
(b) History.
(c) Nations.
(d) Individual experience.

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

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?
(a) Plato and Plotinus.
(b) Fichte and Schelling.
(c) Hume and Locke.
(d) Flaubert and Rousseau.

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

5. What values did Herzen share with the group he was part of?
(a) Herzen and his circle wanted to escape from Russian life into aesthetics and decadent Western art.
(b) Herzen and his circle believed that historical progress would sweep away the aristocracy.
(c) Herzen and his circle felt compelled to respond radically to Russia's stifling culture.
(d) Herzen and his circle exorcised their guilt at being landowners by drinking and gambling and generally dissipating themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?

2. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?

3. What does Herzen's last name indicate about his birth?

4. Who was Tolstoy's sole close friend?

5. What archetype was Levin in Anna Karenina an example of?

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