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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. Can an opinion be vulnerable to attack once exposed?
(a) Rarely.
(b) No.
(c) Never.
(d) Yes.

2. What aspects did these two study?
(a) The world of mathematics and science.
(b) The world of crime and legislation related to it.
(c) The world of science and technology.
(d) The world of painting and sculpture.

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

4. To what does the author refer regarding variety of situation?
(a) The common language and culture found throughout a nation.
(b) The unity of all the villages in a country.
(c) The similarities between one village and the next.
(d) The rapidly passing era when every village had it's own ways and greater dissimilarity from the next.

5. What does the author believe regarding medicines?
(a) They should never be used.
(b) They are very dangerous.
(c) Under certain circumstances they may be warranted.
(d) They are useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a danger of more democracy?

2. Are strong individuals, the active ones, and those of strong passions, emotions, impulses and energies an inherent problem for any nation?

3. Between what does the author differentiate?

4. What is another major benefit of giving freedom and safety to voice individual opinions within society?

5. Why is their friendship less unusual today?

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