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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 measures did the Tsar take to assert his values?
(a) He gave serfs and women the right to vote.
(b) He repressed all signs of dissent and unorthodoxy.
(c) He declared martial law.
(d) He imprisoned his former supporters.

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

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

4. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a famous playwright.
(b) He was an education minister.
(c) He was a censor in the government.
(d) He was an effective publicist.

5. What value did Herzen and Bakunin share?
(a) State power.
(b) Individual liberty.
(c) Church power.
(d) Spiritual experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

2. How did censorship system work?

3. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?

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

5. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?

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