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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1848.

2. What value came first for Herzen?
(a) Human dignity.
(b) Equality of the sexes.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Social justice.

3. What values did Herzen share with the group he was part of?
(a) Herzen and his circle wanted to escape from Russian life into aesthetics and decadent Western art.
(b) Herzen and his circle exorcised their guilt at being landowners by drinking and gambling and generally dissipating themselves.
(c) Herzen and his circle believed that historical progress would sweep away the aristocracy.
(d) Herzen and his circle felt compelled to respond radically to Russia's stifling culture.

4. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) History.
(b) Nations.
(c) Divine causes.
(d) Individual experience.

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His symbolic descriptions.
(b) His chronicler of human experience.
(c) His moralizing.
(d) His theorizing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality redeemed the characters based on Belinsky?

2. Who spread German Romantic philosophy in student circles?

3. What did Belinsky find in literature?

4. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?

5. How did Belinsky make a living?

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