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 did the Decembrist rebellion take place?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1817
(d) 1848.

2. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(b) In proselytizing for the church.
(c) In their writing and activism.
(d) In conspiring against the government.

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

4. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Historical awareness.
(b) Human experience.
(c) Spiritual transcendence.
(d) Transcendental experience.

5. What did the Russian Intelligentsia invent?
(a) A type of social criticism.
(b) Communes.
(c) A code for illicit communications.
(d) Personal-philosophical essays.

6. What effect did German Romanticism have on Russian students?
(a) It made them resentful of the social distinctions they inherited with their culture.
(b) It made them dissolute and morally bankrupt.
(c) It demanded a commitment to social and national causes.
(d) It made them hungry for violent rebellion and abrupt social change.

7. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?
(a) His theory of history seemed to predict Russian nationalism.
(b) His quasi-religious philosophy gave atheistic students something they could believe in.
(c) His idealism seemed like an escape from the squalor of Russia.
(d) His world spirit seemed to prophesy the Russian Revolution.

8. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Goncharov.

9. What is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual?
(a) Crabby and self-defeating.
(b) Reform-minded and logical.
(c) Romantic and progressive.
(d) Gloomy and pessimistic.

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

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

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

13. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(b) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.
(c) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.
(d) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.

14. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Not having an overarching vision.
(b) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.
(c) Having too much insight as an artist.
(d) Having too much wealth as a landowner.

15. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Unique and popular.
(b) Earnest but unoriginal.
(c) Innovative but ineffectual.
(d) Revolutionary and dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?

2. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?

3. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?

4. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

5. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?

(see the answer keys)

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