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

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

3. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Earnest but unoriginal.
(b) Unique and popular.
(c) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(d) Innovative but ineffectual.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the European states experienced revolution?

2. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?

3. What was Tolstoy's relationship with Joseph de Maistre?

4. How did censorship system work?

5. Where did de Maistre express his views?

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