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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 Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In their writing and activism.
(b) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(c) In proselytizing for the church.
(d) In conspiring against the government.

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

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

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(b) Anarchist mobs.
(c) Selfish aristocrats.
(d) Reforms in land ownership and use.

5. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(b) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.
(c) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(d) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did de Maistre express his views?

2. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

3. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

4. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?

5. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

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