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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. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1825.

2. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?
(a) They cannot know all the influences that affect a moment.
(b) They cannot know the divine mind.
(c) They can never see life through each other's eyes.
(d) They remain divine creatures, even though they live earthly experiences.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?

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

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

4. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?

5. What was de Maistre's position?

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