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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 forces dominated Herzen's world?
(a) American pragmatism.
(b) Roman republicanism.
(c) English humanism.
(d) French and German romanticism.

2. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was an education minister.
(b) He was a censor in the government.
(c) He was an effective publicist.
(d) He was a famous playwright.

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

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

5. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(b) The decline of Europe.
(c) The Thirty Years War.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Herzen see history?

3. What was de Maistre's position?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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