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

2. When did Vissarion Belinsky die?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1856.

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

4. Whose writings were populists influenced by?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Belinsky.
(d) Herzen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?

2. What Keats-like gift did Turgenev have?

3. Why was Belinsky expelled from university?

4. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

5. What did the character Bazarov represent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What Western thinkers influenced Populism?

2. What belief did Tolstoy share with Rousseau?

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

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

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

6. Why was Chernychevsky wary of the state?

7. What was Turgenev's political stance, and how had he formulated it?

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

9. How did Hegel's ideas influence Herzen?

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

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