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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 qualities did the characters based on Belinsky possess?
(a) Nihilistic recklessness.
(b) Awkward earnestness.
(c) Diabolical political stances.
(d) Dreamy romanticism.

2. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.
(b) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(c) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.
(d) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.

3. What view of Turgenev does Berlin say is misleading?
(a) The idea of Turgenev as a prophet of the Russian Revolution.
(b) The idea of Turgenev as a literary writer drawn reluctantly into politics.
(c) The idea of Turgenev as a revolutionary under cover of a writer.
(d) The idea of Turgenev as an aristocrat in peasant's clothing.

4. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(b) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.
(c) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(d) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.

5. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Turgenev.
(d) Goncharov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?

2. In what point do Annenkov and Herzen agree about Russian Intelligentsia?

3. What archetype was Levin in Anna Karenina an example of?

4. Who was Mikhail Bakunin's mentor?

5. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

(see the answer key)

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