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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 do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Society.
(b) Political calculations.
(c) The concreteness of experience.
(d) Abstractions.

2. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Decembrist Committee.
(b) The Comintern.
(c) The Homeland Purity Committee.
(d) The Second of April Committee.

3. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?
(a) He subscribed to an abstract vision of life, but tried to present life in detail.
(b) He presented life in detail, but developed an overarching moral vision.
(c) He presented life in detail, with each detail providing evidence of an overarching universal plan.
(d) He described the moral plan of the universe in symbolic language.

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

5. What was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(b) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.
(c) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(d) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the European states experienced revolution?

2. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

3. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?

4. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?

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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