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

2. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Second of April Committee.
(b) The Comintern.
(c) The Homeland Purity Committee.
(d) The Decembrist Committee.

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

4. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a famous playwright.
(b) He was an education minister.
(c) He was a censor in the government.
(d) He was an effective publicist.

5. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Charles.
(c) Nicholas I.
(d) Nicholas II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?

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

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

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

5. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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