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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Of the Liberty of Thought & Discussion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe leads to progress?
(a) Clashes that end quickly.
(b) Clashes that lead to stronger disagreement.
(c) Clashes that bring opponents closer to the truth.
(d) Clashes that cause trouble.

2. How does John Stuart Mill begin this chapter?
(a) By discussing the difficulties of freedom.
(b) By discussing past behaviors of monarchies towards liberty.
(c) By introductin a discourse regarding tyranny.
(d) By introducing a discourse regarding opinion and the expression thereof.

3. When did Mary publish this?
(a) A good decade later.
(b) A good century earlier.
(c) A good decade earlier.
(d) A good century later.

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

5. What altered who could be citizens and who hoped to be, or to become so?
(a) The beginning of property restrictions and other qualities.
(b) Reduced property restrictions and other qualities.
(c) Increased property restriction and other qualities.
(d) The ending of property restrictions and other qualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Copernicus know?

2. For millions, if knowledge of the solar system were not proliferated and supporting information both provided and explained would the majority conclude from direct personal experience that the planets travel around the Sun?

3. With regard to personal behavior, what does Mill espouse?

4. What is a danger of more democracy?

5. Despite the reality that Mill's idea is far from new, it is what?

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