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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Applications.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would be a significant social project?
(a) To not have opposing viewpoints.
(b) To avoid clashes altogether.
(c) To have opposing viewpoints and not discuss them.
(d) To put this simple idea regarding opponents into practice.

2. Here John Stuart Mill addresses the impact of what regarding expressing one's opinions?
(a) How opinions are often wrong.
(b) How opinions should not always be expressed.
(c) How opinions should always be expressed and discussed.
(d) How opinions are expressed within a societal context.

3. Do Mormons face persecution in Mill's society?
(a) Most certainly.
(b) Very little.
(c) An insignificant amount.
(d) No.

4. For the most part, does the philosopher urge the government to take action regarding this type of trade?
(a) Yes.
(b) Usually.
(c) Often.
(d) No.

5. What does Mill say about when one might pass a village or two away from one's home?
(a) The people are unwelcoming and cold.
(b) The people can barely be understood because they are as distinctive as if the next town were the next nation.
(c) The people are odd and uninviting.
(d) The people are much like those in one's own village.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the text, he is openly referring to what?

2. For whom is this section written?

3. In England, why did the number of prisoners increase?

4. How does the author begin this chapter?

5. How does one begin to persecute another?

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