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

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

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

4. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
(a) Autocracy, religion and order.
(b) Opportunity and liberty.
(c) Civil rights for serfs and peasants.
(d) The property of landowners.

5. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?
(a) He presented life in detail, but developed an overarching moral vision.
(b) He presented life in detail, with each detail providing evidence of an overarching universal plan.
(c) He subscribed to an abstract vision of life, but tried to present life in detail.
(d) He described the moral plan of the universe in symbolic language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?

2. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?

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

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?

5. What was the name of the committee in charge of government censorship?

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