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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Herzen's last name indicate about his birth?
(a) Herzen means heart in German, and indicates his illegitimacy.
(b) Herzen was a German name, indicating that his parents had immigrated to Russia.
(c) Herzen was a noble name, and indicates his high birth.
(d) Herzen's father was common name for Latvian emigrants to Russia to adopt.

2. Where did Tolstoy go to university?
(a) The University of Berlin.
(b) The University of Kazan.
(c) The University of Moscow.
(d) The University of Petersburg.

3. Where was Herzen educated?
(a) The University of Moscow.
(b) Petersburg.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

4. Where was Herzen born?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Pinsk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Petersburg.

5. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Tolstoy embraced Hegel wholeheartedly.
(b) Tolstoy believed in the evolution of culture, but not in the force behind that evolution.
(c) Tolstoy embraced the divinity behind a changing world, but rejected the teleological nature of Hegel's history.
(d) Tolstoy rejected Hegel.

6. What did the character Bazarov represent?
(a) Anarchy and violence.
(b) The traditional aristocrat.
(c) The coming Russian Revolution.
(d) Destructive criticism and nihilism.

7. What view of Turgenev does Berlin say is misleading?
(a) The idea of Turgenev as an aristocrat in peasant's clothing.
(b) The idea of Turgenev as a literary writer drawn reluctantly into politics.
(c) The idea of Turgenev as a prophet of the Russian Revolution.
(d) The idea of Turgenev as a revolutionary under cover of a writer.

8. What term of contempt did Tolstoy use for writing he disliked?
(a) Populist.
(b) Made up.
(c) Political.
(d) Aristocratic.

9. What has the consensus been about Leo Tolstoy?
(a) That he was ahead of his time as a thinker.
(b) That he was really a cleric, more than a novelist.
(c) That he was more of a philosopher than a novelist.
(d) That he was a brilliant novelist but a bad thinker.

10. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?
(a) The notion that some must die for society to progress.
(b) The notion that the mind is fed only by direct sensory experience.
(c) The notion that Europeans are superior to Russians and others.
(d) The notion that Romanic idealism would triumph in workers' collectives.

11. When did Turgenev die?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1875.

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

13. Whom did Belinsky identify as the father of Russian literature?
(a) Lermontov.
(b) Turgenev.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Pushkin.

14. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?
(a) Kant and Hume.
(b) Fourier and Mill.
(c) Darwin and Marx.
(d) Locke and Rousseau.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Fathers and Children received in Russia?

2. Who was the thinker Tolstoy agreed with most?

3. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

4. Who changed the consensus about Tolstoy?

5. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?

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