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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. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
(a) He liked the notion of a godless world motivated by individual actions.
(b) He liked the idea of a total divinity that determined every detail of the universe.
(c) He liked the idea of a spiritual core to human society.
(d) He liked the concept of a clocklike divinity and an ordered universe.

2. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?
(a) Berlin describes him as a theorist whose ideas were popular for a short time.
(b) Berlin describes him as a moral thinker of the first importance.
(c) Berlin describes him as writer of no lasting importance.
(d) Berlin describes him as censor who had a powerful effect on Russian literature.

3. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Human experience.
(b) Spiritual transcendence.
(c) Historical awareness.
(d) Transcendental experience.

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

5. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The decline of Europe.
(b) The Thirty Years War.
(c) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?

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

3. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

4. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

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

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