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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 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 magnetic almost messianic personality.
(d) A talent for collecting details and making concrete plans.

2. How did Tolstoy understand the concept of truth?
(a) Truth was relative.
(b) Truth was eternal.
(c) Truth was defined by the church and government.
(d) Truth was rooted in contingent experience.

3. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?
(a) Russian agricultural practices.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) Russian Orthodox traditions.
(d) The gloom of Russian philosophy.

4. Whose philosophy did Herzen follow?
(a) Rousseau's.
(b) Plato's.
(c) Marx'.
(d) Hegel's.

5. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?
(a) He was born after the period of repression, so he experienced a full spectrum of Russian literature and life.
(b) He was born to a parish priest, so he understood poor people's concerns.
(c) He was born in Europe, so he could see Russian culture without bias.
(d) He was born to an aristocratic father and a poor mother, so he understood both worlds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose diatribes had influenced Turgenev's politics?

2. What quality redeemed the characters based on Belinsky?

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

4. How was Turgenev's novels seen by the Russian government?

5. Where was Herzen born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Alexander Herzen come from?

2. How was Turgenev's work viewed at the end of his life?

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

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

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

6. What was Herzen's relationship with his friends?

7. Describe Belinsky's background and biography.

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

9. What does the term "superfluous men" mean in Russian literature?

10. How did Hegel's ideas influence Herzen?

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