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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 did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the German invasion of 1848.
(b) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(c) With the Tsar's death in 1855.
(d) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.

2. How did censorship system work?
(a) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.
(b) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(c) It was a double censorship system.
(d) It relied on writers' self-censorship.

3. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(b) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(c) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.
(d) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.

4. How did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(b) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.
(c) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(d) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.

5. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?

2. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

3. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

4. Which thinker affected Herzen?

5. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?

(see the answer key)

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