View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
(a) Civil rights for serfs and peasants.
(b) The property of landowners.
(c) Autocracy, religion and order.
(d) Opportunity and liberty.

4. How did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(b) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(c) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.
(d) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.

5. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

2. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?

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

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

5. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 381 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample