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

2. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
(a) He adopted a series of reforms.
(b) He abandoned tradition.
(c) He stepped down.
(d) He moved away from reform.

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

4. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the streets of Moscow.
(b) In the church.
(c) In books and letters.
(d) In the Tsar's court.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What conspiracy against the Tsar did the censorship program discover?

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

4. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

5. What was de Maistre's position?

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