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

2. Where did Tolstoy find the source of his philosophy?
(a) In the collective power of the government.
(b) In the divine rights of government.
(c) In individual experience.
(d) In the divinity of the church.

3. What did Herzen understand that the revolutionaries did not understand?
(a) The corrupting nature of power.
(b) The hellish nature of armed conflict.
(c) The power of the aristocracy.
(d) The cost of revolutionary change.

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

5. What was Belinsky's father like?
(a) Belinsky's father was a bureaucrat in the agriculture ministry.
(b) Belinsky's father was a retired naval doctor who drank.
(c) Belinsky's father was a gentleman farmer.
(d) Belinsky's father was an engraver.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the character Bazarov represent?

3. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?

4. What did Belinsky find in literature?

5. What Keats-like gift did Turgenev have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Alexander Herzen come from?

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

4. What belief did Tolstoy share with Rousseau?

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

6. What was the stance of the "new men" toward Turgenev?

7. What balances did Belinsky strike in his social status and identity?

8. What course of action did Tolstoy advocate for intellectuals?

9. How did Belinsky see literature's use?

10. Why was Chernychevsky wary of the state?

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