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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. What novel did Turgenev publish five years after Fathers and Children?
(a) Smoke.
(b) A Huntsman's sketches.
(c) A Nest of the Gentry.
(d) Torrents of Spring.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the character Bazarov represent?

2. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?

3. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?

4. How did Herzen apply the philosophy of the philosopher whose work he followed?

5. What was Belinsky's father like?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What qualities did the characters based on Belinsky have?

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

4. How did Belinsky see literature's use?

5. How are Herzen and Turgenev similar? How are they different?

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

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

8. What Western thinkers influenced Populism?

9. How did Hegel's ideas influence Herzen?

10. What belief did Tolstoy share with Rousseau?

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