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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 was de Maistre's position?
(a) He was an attache to the Tsar.
(b) He was an envoy of the kingdom of Savoy to Russia.
(c) He was a landowner in Tolstoy's district.
(d) He was the minister in charge of culture in Moscow.

2. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
(a) In proselytizing for the church.
(b) In censoring anti-religious writing.
(c) In their writing and activism.
(d) In conspiring against the government.

3. What did the Tsar see himself as defending for his country?
(a) Opportunity and liberty.
(b) Autocracy, religion and order.
(c) Civil rights for serfs and peasants.
(d) The property of landowners.

4. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?
(a) Alexander Pushkin.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Nikolai Gogol.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the Tsar following the Decembrist rebellion?

3. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

4. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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

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