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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Historical awareness.
(b) Spiritual transcendence.
(c) Human experience.
(d) Transcendental experience.

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Nicholas I.
(b) Charles.
(c) Herzen.
(d) Nicholas II.

3. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Searching for grand designs in events.
(b) Transcendent experience.
(c) Sharing experience between two people.
(d) Fulfilling individual experience.

4. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1817
(d) 1809.

5. Whose work did Bakunin expound paragraph by paragraph?
(a) Schelling's.
(b) Dostoevsky's.
(c) Herzen's.
(d) Hegel's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?

2. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

3. What did Herzen understand that the revolutionaries did not understand?

4. What does Berlin say was the "French" attitude toward the arts?

5. What was Pavel Annekov's role in Russian culture?

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