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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. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1848.

2. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
(a) Autocracy, religion and order.
(b) Opportunity and liberty.
(c) Civil rights for serfs and peasants.
(d) The property of landowners.

3. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the Tsar's court.
(c) In books and letters.
(d) In the streets of Moscow.

4. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Plotinus.
(c) Archilochus.
(d) Solon.

5. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

2. Which thinker affected Herzen?

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

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

5. How did Herzen see history?

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