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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 Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.

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

3. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
(a) As polarizing.
(b) As luminous.
(c) As shy and shrinking.
(d) As magnetic.

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Elaborate.
(b) Dazzling.
(c) Leaden.
(d) Meticulous.

5. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Herder.
(b) Mickiewicz.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Mazzini.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

2. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?

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

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

5. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

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