1. When should drugs be used?
(a) To reduce suffering associated with broken limbs or surgical procedures.
(b) Only during a difficult surgery.
(c) Only when given in small doses.
(d) Never.

2. To what does he refer regarding persecution?
(a) The persecution of his family.
(b) His own and others' reactions to persecute others as he is to the problem of people struggling to survive persecution.
(c) The suffering of the persecuted.
(d) What he has suffered because of persecution.

3. From what century is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?
(a) The 17th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 18th century.
(d) The 19th century.

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

5. What is another major benefit of giving freedom and safety to voice individual opinions within society?
(a) Those who know the truth can keep it to themselves.
(b) Those who are mistaken will continue to believe only themselves.
(c) Those who know the truth can share it with others.
(d) Those who are mistaken can come to see the truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The desire that Humboldt put forth for humanity and the method of exploration that he suggests combined with whose systematic thinking and exploration of ideas all tend to assist the process of thought towards arrival at the whole truth of life and of the reality for people?

2. Should there be choice among competing goods and services?

3. John Stuart Mill completes the book ON LIBERTY by doing what?

4. Who is John Stuart's brother?

5. Does Mill directly mention women in particular?

(see the answer key)

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