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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. Here John Stuart Mill addresses the impact of what regarding expressing one's opinions?
(a) How opinions should not always be expressed.
(b) How opinions are often wrong.
(c) How opinions should always be expressed and discussed.
(d) How opinions are expressed within a societal context.

2. Who does the author assert endeavors to make everyone alike?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The South Africans.
(d) The Norwegians.

3. What is a danger of more democracy?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Misunderstanding.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Tyranny.

4. Who is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?
(a) An Austrian philosopher.
(b) A Polish philosopher.
(c) A Swedish philosopher.
(d) A German philosopher.

5. What does Mill say about when one might pass a village or two away from one's home?
(a) The people are much like those in one's own village.
(b) The people can barely be understood because they are as distinctive as if the next town were the next nation.
(c) The people are odd and uninviting.
(d) The people are unwelcoming and cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is there a tendency in 1800s England, regarding education?

2. In what country did Mill help women?

3. What aspects did these two study?

4. In what work of this ancient philosopher does he refer to factions within a political system?

5. When does the author believe the clash of opposition is good?

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