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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 did the character Bazarov represent?
(a) The traditional aristocrat.
(b) Anarchy and violence.
(c) Destructive criticism and nihilism.
(d) The coming Russian Revolution.

2. What term of contempt did Tolstoy use for writing he disliked?
(a) Political.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Populist.
(d) Made up.

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

4. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.

5. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Sharing experience between two people.
(b) Transcendent experience.
(c) Fulfilling individual experience.
(d) Searching for grand designs in events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Populists do in large scale in 1874?

2. What term did Turgenev use to describe the protagonist of his novel Rudin?

3. When did Tolstoy's reputation change?

4. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?

5. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?

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