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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who changed the consensus about Tolstoy?
(a) Fet.
(b) Mikhailovsky.
(c) Dobrolyubov.
(d) Chernyshevsky.

2. Who advocated Russian Populism?
(a) The Moscow Reform Party.
(b) The Second of April Committee.
(c) The Petersburg Literary Coterie.
(d) A widespread group of radicals.

3. What does the Russian word "Mir" mean?
(a) Collective of communes.
(b) Russian laws.
(c) Freedom.
(d) A political party.

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

5. What qualities did the most important leader of the Russian Populists have that made him successful?
(a) A brilliant intellect.
(b) An eloquent writing and speaking style.
(c) A talent for collecting details and making concrete plans.
(d) A magnetic almost messianic personality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were Tolstoy's early stories received?

3. What quality redeemed the characters based on Belinsky?

4. How did Herzen manifest the values he shared with his circle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What talent did Turgenev share with English poet John Keats?

2. What was Tolstoy's social life like after graduating from university?

3. What did Russian populists experience when they went to the communes in 1874?

4. According to Berlin, why was Turgenev attacked from both left and right?

5. How did Belinsky see literature's use?

6. What was the critical consensus on Tolstoy, and how does Berlin revise it?

7. Why did Turgenev and Botkin despise Chernychevsky?

8. What was Tolstoy's education like?

9. Where did Alexander Herzen come from?

10. What was Herzen's early activist career like?

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