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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 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.

2. What term did Turgenev use to describe the protagonist of his novel Rudin?
(a) An everyman.
(b) An ubermensch.
(c) A hero.
(d) A superfluous man.

3. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His theorizing.
(b) His chronicler of human experience.
(c) His moralizing.
(d) His symbolic descriptions.

4. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(b) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.
(c) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(d) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.

5. What value came first for Herzen?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Social justice.
(c) Human dignity.
(d) Equality of the sexes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tolstoy go to university?

2. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

3. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky possess?

4. How did Turgenev differ from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky?

5. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

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