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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 writer supported the Tsar's acts?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Nikolai Gogol.

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

3. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?
(a) The Moscow threat.
(b) The Petrashevsky Circle.
(c) The Molotov anarchists.
(d) The Decembrists.

4. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
(a) Human experience.
(b) Historical awareness.
(c) Transcendental experience.
(d) Spiritual transcendence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?

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

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

4. When had the European states experienced revolution?

5. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

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