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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 did Herzen see as the individual's role in history?
(a) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to heal society from the damages done by progress.
(b) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to understand and cooperate with historical forces.
(c) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to manifest the universe's latent desires.
(d) Herzen saw as the individual's role in history as an obligation to fulfill his own nature.

2. How did censorship system work?
(a) It relied on writers' self-censorship.
(b) It used paid informers to keep banned books from being written.
(c) It forced authors to publically recant having written banned books.
(d) It was a double censorship system.

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

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

5. How does Berlin describe Herzen's prose style?
(a) Meticulous.
(b) Elaborate.
(c) Dazzling.
(d) Leaden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berlin describe Herzen's importance?

2. What limitations did Tolstoy see as hindering human beings, according to Berlin?

3. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?

4. What were de Maistre's views?

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

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