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

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

3. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(b) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.
(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. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(b) Unique and popular.
(c) Earnest but unoriginal.
(d) Innovative but ineffectual.

5. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) Church power.
(b) Individual liberty.
(c) Spiritual experience.
(d) State power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

2. How did Herzen see history?

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

4. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

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