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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 did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Spiritual transcendence.
(b) Transcendental experience.
(c) Historical awareness.
(d) Human experience.

2. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Moscow threat.
(b) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(c) The Decembrists.
(d) The Molotov anarchists.

3. 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.

4. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Divine causes.
(b) Individual experience.
(c) Nations.
(d) History.

5. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(b) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.
(c) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(d) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

3. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?

4. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

5. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

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