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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. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?
(a) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.
(b) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(c) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(d) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.

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

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

4. Who was Joseph de Maistre?
(a) A bureaucrat on the censorship committee.
(b) A poor writer.
(c) An educated courtier.
(d) A conspirator against the Tsar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?

4. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

5. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?

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