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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) Tolstoy was a humanist.
(b) de Maistre was a conspirator against the Tsar.
(c) Tolstoy was an aristocrat.
(d) de Maistre was a Catholic reactionary.

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

3. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Sharing experience between two people.
(b) Searching for grand designs in events.
(c) Fulfilling individual experience.
(d) Transcendent experience.

4. 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 Tsar's conversion in 1845.
(c) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(d) With the German invasion of 1848.

5. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Solon.
(b) Plato.
(c) Plotinus.
(d) Archilochus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did censorship system work?

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

3. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

4. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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

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