Russian Thinkers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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Russian Thinkers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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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 does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?
(a) Artists are prophets whose lives are instructive to the masses.
(b) Artists are only legitimate if they are bohemian: sloppy and irresponsible.
(c) Moral faults in the artist do not affect the artwork.
(d) Artists are the saviors and redeemers of culture.

2. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?
(a) Berlin describes Belinsky as the decadent gadfly of his generation.
(b) Berlin describes Belinsky as a revolutionary whose martyrdom inspired future revolutionaries.
(c) Berlin describes Belinsky as the father of social criticism.
(d) Berlin describes Belinsky as an aesthete whose decadence was in fashion for a few years.

3. What problem obsessed Turgenev during his life?
(a) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of industrialization in a culture of hand-laborers.
(b) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of the landowner who cannot help his peasants without giving away his property.
(c) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of the sensitive man who has no influence on the events of his day.
(d) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of European influence on Russian philosophy and literature.

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Anarchist mobs.
(b) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(c) Selfish aristocrats.
(d) Reforms in land ownership and use.

5. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a famous playwright.
(b) He was an education minister.
(c) He was a censor in the government.
(d) He was an effective publicist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?

2. How was Turgenev received by the radicals of the 1860s and 70s?

3. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?

4. What term of contempt did Tolstoy use for writing he disliked?

5. Which character was based on Belinsky?

(see the answer key)

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