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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 does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Unique and popular.
(b) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(c) Earnest but unoriginal.
(d) Innovative but ineffectual.

2. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?
(a) Not having an overarching vision.
(b) Being too separate from the lives of the peasants.
(c) Having too much insight as an artist.
(d) Having too much wealth as a landowner.

3. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.
(b) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(c) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.
(d) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.

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

5. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Marx.
(b) Hume.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

2. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?

3. What forces dominated Herzen's world?

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

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

(see the answer key)

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