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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theme does Turgenev's novel Fathers and Children deal with?
(a) It describes the problem of nihilism and anarchism within an industrial society.
(b) It is centered on the relationship between Turgenev's generation and the generation of radicals that followed him.
(c) It recounts Turgenev's travels to Europe and the ideas he found there.
(d) It describes the ascent of a new generation of radical families.

2. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?
(a) A German doctor.
(b) A liberal professor.
(c) An older writer.
(d) A lover.

3. What was Herzen anxious to avoid becoming?
(a) An over-educated dilettante.
(b) A political prisoner.
(c) A bureaucrat.
(d) A husband.

4. What does the Russian word "obshcnina" mean?
(a) Aristocratic privileges.
(b) Russian territories.
(c) Peasant communes.
(d) Inherited customs.

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

6. How was Turgenev's novels seen by the Russian government?
(a) Turgenev's novels represented the ideal Russian society.
(b) Turgenev's novels were not safe.
(c) Turgenev's novels were banned as subversive.
(d) Turgenev's novels were charming and harmless.

7. According to Berlin, why is there not a good biography of Alexander Herzen?
(a) Because Herzen's autobiography is so remarkable.
(b) Because Herzen destroyed all of his papers.
(c) Because Herzen's papers were all lost in a fire.
(d) Because Herzen's biographers were censored by the government.

8. How was Turgenev received by the radicals of the 1860s and 70s?
(a) He was celebrated as a visionary.
(b) He was rejected as ineffectual.
(c) He was dismissed as a noble.
(d) He was embraced as a model.

9. What do Herzen and Turgenev's novels have in common?
(a) A vision of post-revolutionary utopian society.
(b) A determination to bring about the downfall of the aristocracy.
(c) A commitment to social justice.
(d) The sense that many human problems are insoluble.

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

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

12. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?
(a) From his reading of European thinkers, Tolstoy saw the flaws in Russian society.
(b) After traveling to Europe, Tolstoy became contemptuous of European "expertise."
(c) Tolstoy's friendship with European writers showed him the inevitability of revolutionary change.
(d) Tolstoy's travels throughout Europe showed him the superior forms of social organization.

13. How did the government react to Turgenev's death?
(a) The government to drastic precautions over Turgenev's funeral.
(b) The government made sure that Turgenev was buried without fanfare.
(c) The government gave Turgenev a hero's farewell.
(d) The government attacked mourners at Turgenev's funeral.

14. How widely was Belinsky read?
(a) Belinsky was read even in the Russian provinces.
(b) Belinsky was known primarily in Europe.
(c) Belinsky was only known in small circles of Moscow intelligentsia.
(d) Belinsky was only known in small circles of Petersburg intelligentsia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?

2. What kind of position has Turgenev's legacy occupied in Russian society?

3. What did Populists do in large scale in 1874?

4. What term did Turgenev use to describe the protagonist of his novel Rudin?

5. What sentiment ultimately moved the Populists?

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