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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Russian Populism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) Church power.
(b) Spiritual experience.
(c) Individual liberty.
(d) State power.

2. 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 in Europe, so he could see Russian culture without bias.
(c) He was born to a parish priest, so he understood poor people's concerns.
(d) He was born to an aristocratic father and a poor mother, so he understood both worlds.

3. Whose failures did the leader of the Populists reject?
(a) Bakunin's.
(b) Herzen's.
(c) Dostoevsky's.
(d) Gogol's.

4. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Hume.
(d) Marx.

5. When did Russian Populism begin to decline?
(a) After the abolition of serfdom in 1861.
(b) After the conviction of the Petrachevsky Circle.
(c) After the death of the Tsar in 1881.
(d) After the opening of the Trans-Siberia railroad in 1889.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?

2. How did Herzen see history?

3. Whose writing was Russia "intellectually dependent" upon?

4. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

5. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?

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