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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hedgehog and the Fox.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) A decrease in censorship.
(b) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(c) Intense Slavophilia.
(d) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.

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

3. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
(a) A period of prosperity.
(b) A period of repression.
(c) A period of tolerance.
(d) A period of terror.

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

5. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.
(b) They can never see life through each other's eyes.
(c) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.
(d) They cannot know the divine mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

2. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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

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

5. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

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