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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. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1817

2. 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 of a pattern in historical events.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.

3. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) Intense Slavophilia.
(b) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(c) A decrease in censorship.
(d) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.

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

5. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Nikolai Gogol.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

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

3. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?

4. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

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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