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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 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.

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

3. What popular idea did Herzen disagree with?
(a) Herzen disagreed with the notion of state power as a justification for violence.
(b) Herzen disagreed with the notion of a pattern in historical events.
(c) Herzen disagreed with the notion that peasants deserve representation in government.
(d) Herzen disagreed with the notion of individual freedom.

4. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?
(a) Organized opposition parties, a middle class.
(b) Industrial cities.
(c) Inherited aristocracy.
(d) Artists and bohemians.

5. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the streets of Moscow.
(b) In books and letters.
(c) In the Tsar's court.
(d) In the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

2. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?

3. What measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?

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

5. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

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