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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"
(a) Turgenev saw Hegel's world spirit in the failure of reform movements in Russia.
(b) Turgenev rejected a world soul, but embraced the critique of materialism.
(c) Turgenev saw evolution as an inverse fulfillment of the Hegelian world-spirit.
(d) Turgenev rejected materialism as the basis for political developments.

2. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was an education minister.
(b) He was an effective publicist.
(c) He was a famous playwright.
(d) He was a censor in the government.

3. How was Herzen seen by the revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s?
(a) Herzen was seen as a decadent aesthete.
(b) Herzen was portrayed as a father of Russian literature.
(c) Herzen was dismissed as a salon-talker.
(d) Herzen was seen as an inspiring revolutionary.

4. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Moscow threat.
(b) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(c) The Decembrists.
(d) The Molotov anarchists.

5. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?
(a) Land reform.
(b) Romantic philosophy.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Urbanization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What balance did Belinsky strike in his career?

2. What was Belinsky's father like?

3. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?

4. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?

5. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?

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