3. What ideas did Tolstoy believe in?
(a) Tolstoy believed in Russians' innate racial cohesion.
(b) Tolstoy advocated for a strict aristocracy to keep the unruly impulses of the masses under control.
(c) Tolstoy rejected original sin and idealized the innocence of children.
(d) Tolstoy proposed the right of Russia to govern Eastern Europe.

4. What Keats-like gift did Turgenev have?
(a) Turgenev had a gift for short evocative verse.
(b) Turgenev had a gift for making himself popular with peasants.
(c) Turgenev had a gift for writing in Italian.
(d) Turgenev had a gift for "negative capability."

5. Who was Tolstoy's sole close friend?
(a) Dobrolyubov.
(b) Chernyshevsky.
(c) Mikhailovsky.
(d) Fet.

6. Whose philosophy did Herzen follow?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Marx'.
(c) Rousseau's.
(d) Hegel's.

7. Whose failures did the leader of the Populists reject?
(a) Gogol's.
(b) Herzen's.
(c) Bakunin's.
(d) Dostoevsky's.

8. What balance did Herzen strike in his philosophy?
(a) A balance between living naturally and making art.
(b) A balance between political engagement and artistic remove.
(c) A balance between revolutionary activities and aristocratic manners.
(d) A balance between social justice and intellectual skepticism.

9. How did Tolstoy get along with the literary salons?
(a) He fit right in with his wit and quick tongue and aphorisms.
(b) He was often at odds with critics, and he became famous for his quarrels.
(c) He longed for attention but was uncomfortable in the salons' scrutinizing eyes.
(d) He made them uncomfortable because he knew that real life was lived in nature.

10. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?
(a) After the abolition of serfdom in 1861.
(b) After the death of the Tsar in 1881.
(c) After the conviction of the Petrachevsky Circle.
(d) After the opening of the Trans-Siberia railroad in 1889.

11. When was Herzen born?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1812.

12. Which character was based on Belinsky?
(a) Onegin in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
(b) Basistov in Turgenev's Rudin.
(c) Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
(d) Vronsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

13. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Stankevich.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Goncharov.

14. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?
(a) He was born in Europe, so he could see Russian culture without bias.
(b) He was born to a parish priest, so he understood poor people's concerns.
(c) He was born to an aristocratic father and a poor mother, so he understood both worlds.
(d) He was born after the period of repression, so he experienced a full spectrum of Russian literature and life.

15. Whose writings were populists influenced by?
(a) Gogol.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Belinsky.
(d) Herzen.