This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Of the Limits to the Authority of the Society over the Individual.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one strength of this book?
(a) One can read it very quickly.
(b) One can agree with all Mill has to say.
(c) One can transfer the applicability of the principles and observations made to the present culture and time.
(d) One can understand Mill's perspective.

2. When does the author believe the clash of opposition is good?
(a) When the clash is not violent.
(b) When any clash occurs.
(c) When the clash changes both.
(d) When the clash is not deadly.

3. What other countries does the author also believe have become more alike to one another?
(a) The Germans and the Russians.
(b) The British and French.
(c) The Mexicans and the Americans.
(d) The Americans and Canadians.

4. Does the author confine his criticisms to his own nation?
(a) No.
(b) At first.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only later.

5. How is John Stuart Mill viewed?
(a) As having been the most prominent English-speaking thinker in the 19th century.
(b) As having been a fairly prominent philosopher at his time.
(c) As having been a crazy man full of crazy ideas.
(d) As having been the most prominent of all English-speaking thinkers of any time.