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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. According to Berlin, what did Tolstoy have the greatest faith in?
(a) Individual experience.
(b) Nations.
(c) History.
(d) Divine causes.

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

3. What does Berlin say is underestimated in Tolstoy's legacy?
(a) His acute social commentary.
(b) His detailed descriptions.
(c) His philosophy of history.
(d) His moral vision.

4. When had the European states experienced revolution?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1818.

5. How did censorship system work?
(a) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.
(b) It was a double censorship system.
(c) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(d) It relied on writers' self-censorship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

2. How was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?

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

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

5. What does Berlin say Tolstoy felt guilty about?

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