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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. Where did de Maistre express his views?
(a) In the streets of Moscow.
(b) In books and letters.
(c) In the church.
(d) In the Tsar's court.

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

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

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

5. Who was Joseph de Maistre?
(a) An educated courtier.
(b) A bureaucrat on the censorship committee.
(c) A conspirator against the Tsar.
(d) A poor writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Tolstoy's legacy do critics praise?

2. Who was exiled to Siberia because of the trial of a group of conspirators?

3. What features of European culture were missing in Russia in the 1830s and 40s?

4. What does Berlin mean when he says that Tolstoy was a fox who believed in being a hedgehog?

5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?

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