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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Turgenev die?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1875.

3. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?
(a) Darwin and Marx.
(b) Fourier and Mill.
(c) Locke and Rousseau.
(d) Kant and Hume.

4. How was Belinsky described by the writers he influenced?
(a) Belinsky was described as Russia's retrograde conservative.
(b) Belinsky was described as Russia's most optimistic Romantic.
(c) Belinsky was described as the aesthete of his generation.
(d) Belinsky was described as the conscience of his generation.

5. Which character was based on Belinsky?
(a) Vronsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
(b) Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
(c) Basistov in Turgenev's Rudin.
(d) Onegin in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

6. Where was Belinsky born?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Finland.

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

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

9. When was Herzen born?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1815.

10. What does the Russian word "obshcnina" mean?
(a) Inherited customs.
(b) Russian territories.
(c) Aristocratic privileges.
(d) Peasant communes.

11. What was Tolstoy's experience of European ideas?
(a) After traveling to Europe, Tolstoy became contemptuous of European "expertise."
(b) Tolstoy's travels throughout Europe showed him the superior forms of social organization.
(c) From his reading of European thinkers, Tolstoy saw the flaws in Russian society.
(d) Tolstoy's friendship with European writers showed him the inevitability of revolutionary change.

12. What allowed the leader of the Populists to lead?
(a) He was born after the period of repression, so he experienced a full spectrum of Russian literature and life.
(b) He was born in Europe, so he could see Russian culture without bias.
(c) He was born to an aristocratic father and a poor mother, so he understood both worlds.
(d) He was born to a parish priest, so he understood poor people's concerns.

13. Who converted Belinsky to the idealism of Fichte and Schelling?
(a) Goncharov.
(b) Stankevich.
(c) Gogol.
(d) Herzen.

14. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?
(a) Peasant communes.
(b) European nation-states.
(c) Native-American tribes.
(d) Aristocratic fiefdoms.

15. What did Turgenev try to do with the novel he published five years after Fathers and Children?
(a) Turgenev tried to portray Russian society without a political slant.
(b) Turgenev tried to criticize the aristocracy unreservedly.
(c) Turgenev tried to redeem himself of charges of obscenity.
(d) Turgenev tried to win the favor of progressives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was Herzen part of in university?

2. What was the intellectual's role in the Populists' view?

3. What native influence affected the Russian Populists?

4. Where did Tolstoy find the source of his philosophy?

5. Where was Herzen born?

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