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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 policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(b) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.
(c) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(d) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.

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

3. Where did Tolstoy find the source of his philosophy?
(a) In the divinity of the church.
(b) In the divine rights of government.
(c) In the collective power of the government.
(d) In individual experience.

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

5. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.
(b) Having too much insight as an artist.
(c) Having too much wealth as a landowner.
(d) Not having an overarching vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Turgenev differ from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky?

2. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?

3. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

4. How did the government react to Turgenev's death?

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

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