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

2. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.
(b) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(c) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(d) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.

3. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
(a) A period of repression.
(b) A period of prosperity.
(c) A period of tolerance.
(d) A period of terror.

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

5. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) Nicholas II.
(b) Herzen.
(c) Charles.
(d) Nicholas I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

2. What were de Maistre's views?

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

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

5. What was de Maistre's position?

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