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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 did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.
(b) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(c) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(d) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.

2. What forces dominated Herzen's world?
(a) French and German romanticism.
(b) Roman republicanism.
(c) English humanism.
(d) American pragmatism.

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

4. What did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.

5. What did Herzen predict in "From the Other Shore"?
(a) The decline of Europe.
(b) The triumph of Communism in Russia.
(c) The Thirty Years War.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do foxes represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?

3. How did Herzen see history?

4. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?

5. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

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