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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tolstoy and Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin describe conservative Romantics?
(a) Conservative Romantics believed that the best progress was a return to traditional Russian values.
(b) Conservative Romantics believed that mechanical reforms would not work without a deep understanding of the Russian soul
(c) Conservative Romantics believed that intellectuals could thrive without changing the aristocratic government.
(d) Conservative Romantics believed that progress was a trap, and that the only way out would be to develop Russian nationalism.

2. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The Thirty Years War.
(b) The decline of Europe.
(c) World War I.
(d) The triumph of Communism in Russia.

3. Who advocated Russian Populism?
(a) A widespread group of radicals.
(b) The Moscow Reform Party.
(c) The Petersburg Literary Coterie.
(d) The Second of April Committee.

4. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?
(a) Radical and revolutionary organizations that wanted to bring about change through violence.
(b) The Europeanization of Russian culture.
(c) Individualism on one hand and authoritarian centralism traditions on the other.
(d) The inherited privilege of the Russian aristocracy.

5. How does Berlin describe the state of Russian culture in the mid-1800s?
(a) A thriving renaissance.
(b) A police state.
(c) A moral and intellectual vacuum.
(d) A powder keg on the verge of revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?

2. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?

3. Which principles did Belinsky never abandon?

4. When was Herzen born?

5. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"

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