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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Prefaces Etc. : Chapter 1, Prefaces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was part of the work of these two friends?
(a) To face and address some of the least popular aspects of culture.
(b) To face and address the issue of art of their time becoming stale and boring.
(c) To face and address the issue of nuclear war.
(d) To face and address some difficult mathematical equations.

2. Why is their friendship less unusual today?
(a) Since many people do not marry for love but for money.
(b) Since family members are often friends.
(c) Since education has been turned into a coeducational experience.
(d) Since husbands and wives are expected to be close companions.

3. Is the author considered a philosopher?
(a) No.
(b) After his death.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

4. Who is John Stuart's brother?
(a) Joshua Bartlett.
(b) James Brown.
(c) Jeremy Bentham.
(d) Justin Benjamin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary publish?

2. Was Mill an advocate for the women's rights movement?

3. Where did John Stuart's father loom large in relevance during John Stuart's earliest years?

4. For how long was this woman his close companion?

5. Who has been exclusively and specifically an intellectual and emotional companion of J.S. Mill's?

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