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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 had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?
(a) A new era of peace.
(b) The Thirty-Years' War.
(c) The revolution failed.
(d) Napoleonic wars.

2. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(b) Reforms in land ownership and use.
(c) Selfish aristocrats.
(d) Anarchist mobs.

3. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His symbolic descriptions.
(b) His moralizing.
(c) His theorizing.
(d) His chronicler of human experience.

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

5. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1825.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were de Maistre's views?

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

4. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

5. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

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