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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Nations.
(b) History.
(c) Divine causes.
(d) Individual experience.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What value came first for Herzen?

3. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?

4. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?

5. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?

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