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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 Mill indicate are all deeply important in how the freedom of each individual is affected by that of the others?
(a) Men's public opinions, women's and the laws of the nation.
(b) Men and women's public opinions.
(c) Men's public opinions.
(d) The laws of the nation and men's public opinions.

2. What is one topic these friends covered?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Lithography.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Bio hazards.

3. What does the author say happens in most cultures regarding private behavior?
(a) Private behavior was publicly regulated to intense extremes.
(b) Private behavior did not exist.
(c) Private behavior had no restrictions.
(d) Private behavior was somewhat regulated.

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

5. For what did Mill's education prepare him well?
(a) Becoming a famous mathematician.
(b) His engineering field.
(c) Being a teacher.
(d) The social and political work that he came into later in life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Stuart Mill show about the real challenge regarding one's views?

2. What was limiting Copernicus' sharing of his knowledge?

3. Over whom did Copernicus have a superior knowledge of this knowledge?

4. What was part of the work of these two friends?

5. In what subjects was his education clearly weak?

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