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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) 1809.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1848.

2. How did censorship system work?
(a) It relied on writers' self-censorship.
(b) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.
(c) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(d) It was a double censorship system.

3. How did Tolstoy understand the concept of truth?
(a) Truth was rooted in contingent experience.
(b) Truth was defined by the church and government.
(c) Truth was relative.
(d) Truth was eternal.

4. How did the Populists differ from Marxists?
(a) They did not believe in class warfare through violence.
(b) They did not have any nostalgia for a pre-industrial past.
(c) They did not fear the power of the bourgeoisie.
(d) They did not believe that history had an inevitable direction.

5. What Keats-like gift did Turgenev have?
(a) Turgenev had a gift for "negative capability."
(b) Turgenev had a gift for short evocative verse.
(c) Turgenev had a gift for making himself popular with peasants.
(d) Turgenev had a gift for writing in Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

2. What kind of position has Turgenev's legacy occupied in Russian society?

3. What did Herzen understand that the revolutionaries did not understand?

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

5. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

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