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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 insight did Herzen value in the thinkers who influenced him?
(a) He liked the notion of a godless world motivated by individual actions.
(b) He liked the idea of a spiritual core to human society.
(c) He liked the concept of a clocklike divinity and an ordered universe.
(d) He liked the idea of a total divinity that determined every detail of the universe.

2. Which thinker saw progress in the growth of national cultures?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Mazzini.
(c) Mickiewicz.
(d) Herder.

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

4. How did Herzen see history?
(a) Herzen saw history as the mind of God thinking.
(b) Herzen saw history as the narrative imposed after events.
(c) Herzen saw history as a mechanistic development.
(d) Herzen saw history as a movement of spiritual forces.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which thinker affected Herzen?

4. Who was Joseph de Maistre?

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

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