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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Innovative but ineffectual.
(b) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(c) Earnest but unoriginal.
(d) Unique and popular.

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Nicholas I.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Nicholas II.
(d) Charles.

3. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?
(a) A new era of peace.
(b) Napoleonic wars.
(c) The Thirty-Years' War.
(d) The revolution failed.

4. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Abstractions.
(b) Society.
(c) Political calculations.
(d) The concreteness of experience.

5. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

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

4. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

5. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

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