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

2. How did the Populists differ from Marxists?
(a) They did not believe in class warfare through violence.
(b) They did not believe that history had an inevitable direction.
(c) They did not have any nostalgia for a pre-industrial past.
(d) They did not fear the power of the bourgeoisie.

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

4. How did Herzen manifest the values he shared with his circle?
(a) Herzen moved to Europe to write.
(b) Herzen drank and gambled, and dabbled in tales that described his exploits.
(c) Herzen wrote anti-Tsarist propaganda.
(d) Herzen founded a revolutionary syndicate.

5. Which character was based on Belinsky?
(a) Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
(b) Vronsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
(c) Onegin in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
(d) Basistov in Turgenev's Rudin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most important leader among the Russian Populists?

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

3. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?

4. What interaction did Tolstoy have with the radical Dobrolyubov?

5. Where was Herzen born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Chernychevsky wary of the state?

2. Why did Turgenev and Botkin despise Chernychevsky?

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

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

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

6. How did Tolstoy's theories and values appear in his novels?

7. How did Hegel's ideas influence Herzen?

8. What belief did Tolstoy share with Rousseau?

9. Where did characters based on Belinsky appear in Russian literature?

10. Why did Turgenev's character Bazarov inspire such strong responses from audiences?

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