2. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?
(a) Belinsky was expelled for an affair with a governess.
(b) Belinsky was expelled for writing an essay mocking the university president.
(c) Belinsky was expelled for inciting a student riot.
(d) Belinsky was expelled for writing a play denouncing serfdom.

3. Who was the thinker Tolstoy agreed with most?
(a) Mazzini.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Pestalozzi.
(d) Marcus Aurelius.

4. What archetype was Levin in Anna Karenina an example of?
(a) The gentleman farmer.
(b) The unspoiled innocent.
(c) The successful poet-visionary.
(d) The hard-working laborer.

5. What interaction did Tolstoy have with the radical Dobrolyubov?
(a) Turgenev and Dobrolyubov fought a duel.
(b) Dobrolyubov published Turgenev's first novel.
(c) Dobrolyubov challenged Turgenev to a duel, but Turgenev refused to fight.
(d) Dobrolyubov refused to talk with Turgenev when they met, once.

6. How does Berlin ultimately characterize Turgenev?
(a) As the ultimate pluralist.
(b) As a consummate philosopher-novelist.
(c) As an artist first and foremost.
(d) As an articulate zealot.

7. Who were Herzen's parents?
(a) Herzen's father was a gentleman; his mother was his mistress.
(b) Herzen's father was a painter; his mother was a writer.
(c) Herzen's father was a musician; his mother was an actress.
(d) Herzen's father was a journalist; his mother was a homemaker.

8. How was Fathers and Children received in Russia?
(a) It caused a controversy over its portrayal of nihilism.
(b) It was banned for obscenity.
(c) It was not noticed until later in Turgenev's life.
(d) It was celebrated as an avant-garde modernism novel.

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

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

11. Whose diatribes had influenced Turgenev's politics?
(a) Bakunin's.
(b) Belinsky's.
(c) Dostoevsky's.
(d) Herzen's.

12. What was Belinsky like in a debate?
(a) Reserved.
(b) Frigidly rational.
(c) Bombastic and offensive.
(d) Furious.

13. What Populist warning did Lenin's reign fulfill?
(a) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that the people would not be happy under any leader who led more than one collective.
(b) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that a popular movement would kneel before a charismatic dictator.
(c) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that a revolution of the elite would result in a dictatorship of that elite.
(d) Lenin's reign fulfilled the Populist prophecy that the people would prosper under autocratic rule.

14. What program did Tolstoy advocate?
(a) Tolstoy advocated a program in which dissidents should be exiled to Siberia or America.
(b) Tolstoy advocated a program in which individuals share the fruits of civilization with the peasants.
(c) Tolstoy advocated a program in which the peasants rule themselves without hierarchy.
(d) Tolstoy advocated a program in which aristocrats benefited from the labor of their peasants.

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