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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 does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His acute social commentary.
(b) His philosophy of history.
(c) His moral vision.
(d) His detailed descriptions.

2. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His symbolic descriptions.
(b) His chronicler of human experience.
(c) His moralizing.
(d) His theorizing.

3. How did censorship system work?
(a) It was a double censorship system.
(b) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.
(c) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(d) It relied on writers' self-censorship.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?

2. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

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

4. When had the European states experienced revolution?

5. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

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