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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Has this tendency continued into the 20th and 21st centuries?
(a) No, not at all.
(b) Yes, to some degree.
(c) No, not currently.
(d) Yes, completely.

2. What does Mill address and also take a step further?
(a) The issue of tyranny.
(b) The issue of inequality.
(c) The issue of fear.
(d) The issue of a dictatorship.

3. Why does the author go on to put this liberty into historical context?
(a) Should readers want to hear stories from the past.
(b) Should readers not be aware of how this has been addressed over the centuries.
(c) Should readers not understand from where he is coming.
(d) Should readers not trust him.

4. What is one goal of education during the Middle Ages?
(a) Encourage students to think for themselves and to argue matters through.
(b) Give students false information.
(c) Teach students what the adults know.
(d) Prepare students for the afterlife.

5. What took place centuries later, regarding Copernicus' knowledge?
(a) His popular opinion has been accepted as true knowledge which has proliferated to the point of being common knowledge.
(b) His popular opinion has been proven wrong.
(c) His unpopular opinion has been proven wrong.
(d) His unpopular opinion has been accepted as true knowledge which has proliferated to the point of being common knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Regarding the previous question, does Mill believe that this is ideal?

2. What must this clash of opposition do to be good?

3. What is a danger of more democracy?

4. He asserts his own view that even if only one individual on the entire face of the Earth holds a particular opinion that he or she can do what?

5. How does the author see the lessening of separation and the variety of situations?

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