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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hedgehog and the Fox.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"?
(a) Archilochus.
(b) Plotinus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Solon.

2. What was the result of Russia's "moral quarantine"?
(a) Ethnic cleansing of Tartars.
(b) A renaissance in Russian literature.
(c) A decrease in censorship.
(d) Intense Slavophilia.

3. What, according to Berlin, did Tolstoy see as futile?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Searching for grand designs in events.
(c) Fulfilling individual experience.
(d) Sharing experience between two people.

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

5. What did the Tsar see himself defending the country against?
(a) Selfish aristocrats.
(b) Atheism, liberalism and revolution.
(c) Reforms in land ownership and use.
(d) Anarchist mobs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

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

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

5. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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