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. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
(a) As luminous.
(b) As shy and shrinking.
(c) As magnetic.
(d) As polarizing.

2. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?
(a) The Tsar's reforms.
(b) The industrial development of Russia.
(c) The Napoleonic battles.
(d) The development of Christianity.

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

4. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?
(a) He described the moral plan of the universe in symbolic language.
(b) He subscribed to an abstract vision of life, but tried to present life in detail.
(c) He presented life in detail, but developed an overarching moral vision.
(d) He presented life in detail, with each detail providing evidence of an overarching universal plan.

5. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.

6. What policy of Peter the Great's had spawned the intelligentsia?
(a) Peter the Great instituted land reforms and made education more affordable to Russian peasants.
(b) Peter the Great sent the sons of aristocrats to Europe for education.
(c) Peter the Great acted as a patron of the arts and initiated a Renaissance in Russian arts and letters.
(d) Peter the Great invested heavily in bringing European intellectuals to Russia.

7. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) World War I.
(b) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(c) The Thirty Years War.
(d) The decline of Europe.

8. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.
(b) They cannot know the divine mind.
(c) They can never see life through each other's eyes.
(d) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.

9. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) State power.
(b) Church power.
(c) Spiritual experience.
(d) Individual liberty.

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

11. How does Berlin describe progressive Romanticism?
(a) Progressive Romantics believed that serfs would free themselves through violence.
(b) Progressive Romantics believed that intellectuals were responsible for the soul of the nation.
(c) Progressive Romantics believed that society was inevitably moving forward.
(d) Progressive Romantics believed that progress was going to come from industry and social reforms.

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

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

14. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
(a) Politics followed road maps laid out in literature.
(b) Literature reacted to political events.
(c) Politics was transposed onto literature.
(d) Literature prophesied political developments.

15. What forces dominated Herzen's world?
(a) English humanism.
(b) French and German romanticism.
(c) Roman republicanism.
(d) American pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?

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

3. What was de Maistre's position?

4. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

5. How did Herzen see history?

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