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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. Who was Joseph de Maistre?
(a) An educated courtier.
(b) A conspirator against the Tsar.
(c) A bureaucrat on the censorship committee.
(d) A poor writer.

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

3. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.
(b) They were co-conspirators.
(c) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.
(d) They shared similar views.

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

5. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Sharing experience between two people.
(c) Searching for grand designs in events.
(d) Fulfilling individual experience.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

5. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?

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