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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Berlin describe Belinsky's legacy?
(a) Berlin describes Belinsky as an aesthete whose decadence was in fashion for a few years.
(b) Berlin describes Belinsky as a revolutionary whose martyrdom inspired future revolutionaries.
(c) Berlin describes Belinsky as the decadent gadfly of his generation.
(d) Berlin describes Belinsky as the father of social criticism.

3. Whose diatribes had influenced Turgenev's politics?
(a) Herzen's.
(b) Bakunin's.
(c) Dostoevsky's.
(d) Belinsky's.

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

5. Where did Belinsky receive encouragement?
(a) A lover.
(b) A liberal professor.
(c) A German doctor.
(d) An older writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What European doctrine did Herzen deplore?

2. Where was Herzen educated?

3. What does Herzen's last name indicate about his birth?

4. What was Tolstoy's opinion about his professors?

5. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?

Short Essay Questions

1. What Western thinkers influenced Populism?

2. What signs indicate the importance of Belinsky in Russian culture?

3. How did Belinsky see literature's use?

4. Where did Alexander Herzen come from?

5. What course of action did Tolstoy advocate for intellectuals?

6. How did Hegel's ideas influence Herzen?

7. What talent did Turgenev share with English poet John Keats?

8. What did Russian populists experience when they went to the communes in 1874?

9. Describe Belinsky's background and biography.

10. What was Turgenev's political stance, and how had he formulated it?

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