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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

2. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

3. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

4. What insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?

5. What was de Maistre's position?

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