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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. Who was the thinker Tolstoy agreed with most?
(a) Mazzini.
(b) Pestalozzi.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Marcus Aurelius.

2. What did Belinsky find in literature?
(a) Evidence of a national race-life.
(b) Vicarious experiences.
(c) Evidence of European superiority.
(d) Spiritual and emotional "ideas."

3. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?
(a) From his reading of European thinkers, Tolstoy saw the flaws in Russian society.
(b) Tolstoy's travels throughout Europe showed him the superior forms of social organization.
(c) After traveling to Europe, Tolstoy became contemptuous of European "expertise."
(d) Tolstoy's friendship with European writers showed him the inevitability of revolutionary change.

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

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the Tsar's death in 1855.
(b) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(c) With the German invasion of 1848.
(d) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

2. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?

3. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?

4. Where was Herzen born?

5. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

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