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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 name of the committee in charge of government censorship?
(a) The Homeland Purity Committee.
(b) The Decembrist Committee.
(c) The Second of April Committee.
(d) The Comintern.

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

3. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?
(a) He imprisoned his former supporters.
(b) He declared martial law.
(c) He repressed all signs of dissent and unorthodoxy.
(d) He gave serfs and women the right to vote.

4. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?
(a) They shared similar views.
(b) They were co-conspirators.
(c) Tolstoy was de Maistre's father-in-law.
(d) de Maistre censored Tolstoy.

5. When did the Decembrist rebellion take place?
(a) 1817
(b) 1809.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1825.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

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

4. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?

5. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?

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