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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 does the Russian word "Mir" mean?
(a) Freedom.
(b) A political party.
(c) Russian laws.
(d) Collective of communes.

2. When did the Russian intelligentsia emerge from university?
(a) 1838-1848.
(b) 1848-1855.
(c) 1855-1870.
(d) 1879-1896.

3. What was the intellectual's role in the Populists' view?
(a) Intellectuals should disseminate propaganda idealizing peasant communes.
(b) Intellectuals should give their lives to social reform.
(c) Intellectuals should work side by side with workers to undermine the aristocracy.
(d) Intellectuals should remain aloof from social transformation.

4. What sentiment ultimately moved the Populists?
(a) Longing for political stability.
(b) Idealistic hope for social justice.
(c) Revulsion from capitalism.
(d) Lust for power.

5. What do Herzen and Turgenev's novels have in common?
(a) The sense that many human problems are insoluble.
(b) A commitment to social justice.
(c) A determination to bring about the downfall of the aristocracy.
(d) A vision of post-revolutionary utopian society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

2. What was Hegel's appeal to Russian students?

3. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

5. Who was the most important leader among the Russian Populists?

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