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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel did Turgenev publish five years after Fathers and Children?
(a) A Huntsman's sketches.
(b) Torrents of Spring.
(c) Smoke.
(d) A Nest of the Gentry.

2. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
(a) He liked the idea of a total divinity that determined every detail of the universe.
(b) He liked the concept of a clocklike divinity and an ordered universe.
(c) He liked the idea of a spiritual core to human society.
(d) He liked the notion of a godless world motivated by individual actions.

3. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) They were co-conspirators.
(b) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(c) They shared similar views.
(d) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Elaborate.
(b) Leaden.
(c) Dazzling.
(d) Meticulous.

5. What problem obsessed Turgenev during his life?
(a) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of the landowner who cannot help his peasants without giving away his property.
(b) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of the sensitive man who has no influence on the events of his day.
(c) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of European influence on Russian philosophy and literature.
(d) Turgenev was obsessed by the problem of industrialization in a culture of hand-laborers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theme does Turgenev's novel Fathers and Children deal with?

2. According to Berlin, why is there not a good biography of Alexander Herzen?

3. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?

4. What dictum of Schelling's represented the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century?

5. What idea caused Tolstoy agony?

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