Russian Thinkers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Russian Thinkers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1825.

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?
(a) He sees Herzen as a founder of Russian literature.
(b) He sees Herzen as overvalued.
(c) He sees Herzen as underestimated.
(d) He sees Herzen as a momentary celebrity.

3. How did the Intelligentsia see their role in society?
(a) They saw themselves as a secular priesthood undertaking a sacred mission of enlightenment.
(b) They saw themselves as proselytes, spreading a gospel of reason and faith in the arts.
(c) They saw themselves as nationalists, building a new industrial nation out of the ruins of the feudal system.
(d) They saw themselves as aesthetes separate from questions of politics.

4. What student of Stankevich's lectured on Western medieval history in Moscow?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Turgenev.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Granovsky.

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

6. Which of the following describes Russian censorship during the middle of the nineteenth century?
(a) Censors intimidated writers who wrote subversive material.
(b) Censors told writers what to write.
(c) Censors looked for subversive ideas.
(d) Censors persecuted the families of authors.

7. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He stepped down.
(b) He moved away from reform.
(c) He abandoned tradition.
(d) He adopted a series of reforms.

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

9. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?
(a) A new era of peace.
(b) The revolution failed.
(c) Napoleonic wars.
(d) The Thirty-Years' War.

10. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Nikolai Gogol.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

11. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Herder.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Mazzini.
(d) Mickiewicz.

12. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) They were both disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of the intelligentsia.
(b) They both experienced a profound camaraderie with the intelligentsia.
(c) They were both repelled by the shallow optimism and naivete of the intelligentsia.
(d) They were both drawn to the romantic prospects of the movement.

13. Which figure was prominent in the founding of the Russian Intelligentsia?
(a) Ivan Turgenev.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

15. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His detailed descriptions.
(b) His moral vision.
(c) His acute social commentary.
(d) His philosophy of history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

2. What value came first for Herzen?

3. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

(see the answer keys)

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