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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hedgehog and the Fox.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Sharing experience between two people.
(b) Fulfilling individual experience.
(c) Transcendent experience.
(d) Searching for grand designs in events.

2. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Archilochus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Solon.
(d) Plotinus.

3. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(b) With the German invasion of 1848.
(c) With the Tsar's death in 1855.
(d) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.

4. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

2. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

3. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?

4. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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

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