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

2. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?
(a) Nikolai Gogol.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. 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 the sum total of each individual's experiences.
(d) Herzen saw human society as a spiritual reality in itself.

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

5. What do hedgehogs represent in the adage that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) The concreteness of experience.
(b) Political calculations.
(c) Society.
(d) Abstractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Tolstoy and de Maistre's views differ?

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

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?

4. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's legacy?

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