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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) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.
(b) Intense Slavophilia.
(c) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(d) A decrease in censorship.

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

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

4. What were de Maistre's views?
(a) He attacked Enlightenment notions of progress.
(b) He advanced Enlightenment notions of progress.
(c) He satirized Enlightenment notions of progress.
(d) He developed Enlightenment notions of progress.

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the Tsar's death in 1855.
(b) With the German invasion of 1848.
(c) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.
(d) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did censorship system work?

2. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?

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

4. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

5. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

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