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. How would many argue against Humboldt's beliefs?
(a) For the sake of those who are unintelligent or uneducated.
(b) For the sake of those who do not have their basic needs met.
(c) For the sake of avoiding that which might well be best left uncultivated within an individual.
(d) For the sake of protecting people from the harsh truths and realities of life.

2. What is the main focus of the entire work?
(a) To discuss various opposing ideas.
(b) Creating a culture where most people are allowed certain liberties.
(c) Deciding who should be allowed to have individual freedoms.
(d) Divining the proper limitations of individual liberty and governmental authority.

3. The movements towards individuality that is released from intense restrictions are a sign, according to the philosopher, of what?
(a) Troubles to come.
(b) Hope for the future.
(c) More issues with which to deal.
(d) A return to the past.

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

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