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. Despite the reality that Mill's idea is far from new, it is what?
(a) Never the case in reality.
(b) Always the case in reality.
(c) Relatively rarely the case in reality.
(d) Often the case in reality.

2. What is one example that he cites regarding persecution?
(a) Objections to having late business hours during the week.
(b) Fierce objections against museums being open on the Sabbath.
(c) The closing of businesses for a national holiday.
(d) Complaints by school children for having to attend school during bad weather.

3. To what does this analysis lead?
(a) Mill and Taylor showing how intereference is always needed.
(b) Mill and Tayolor showing how control of an individual takes away his or her right to liberty.
(c) Mill and Taylor showing how interference is never needed.
(d) Mill and Taylor showing how there are times when the interference and control of the individual by the state is entirely legitimate.

4. Towards what was there a Continental attitude?
(a) Self-government as an idea that was international.
(b) A desire for a socialist government.
(c) A desire to return to the days of a monarchy.
(d) Self-government as an idea that was new and unusual.

5. Of what is there a tendency in 1800s England, regarding education?
(a) For people to teach themselves both sides of an argument.
(b) For people to not study any side of an argument, to avoid disagreements.
(c) For people to only teach themselves the opposing side of an argument.
(d) For people to teach themselves one side of an argument but not to educate themselves in the opposing views.