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

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

3. How did the writer who supported the Tsar present the Tsar's acts?
(a) He denounced the Tsar's opponents.
(b) He presented even serfdom as divinely ordained.
(c) He justified the aristocracy's use of violence.
(d) He proclaimed the natural rights of man.

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

5. What had been the outcome of the European states' revolution?
(a) The Thirty-Years' War.
(b) A new era of peace.
(c) Napoleonic wars.
(d) The revolution failed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When had the European states experienced revolution?

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

4. What events proved the limitation Tolstoy described?

5. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

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