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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 part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?
(a) His moralizing.
(b) His chronicler of human experience.
(c) His symbolic descriptions.
(d) His theorizing.

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

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?
(a) Marx.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Plato.
(d) Hume.

4. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
(a) With the German invasion of 1848.
(b) With the Tsar's overthrow in 1850.
(c) With the Tsar's death in 1855.
(d) With Tsar's conversion in 1845.

5. How did Herzen see human society?
(a) Herzen saw human society as the victim of industrial expansion.
(b) Herzen saw human society as a number of connected--or disconnected--individuals.
(c) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.
(d) Herzen saw human society as the sum total of each individual's experiences.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

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

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

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