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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Applications.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was part of the work of these two friends?
(a) To face and address some difficult mathematical equations.
(b) To face and address some of the least popular aspects of culture.
(c) To face and address the issue of art of their time becoming stale and boring.
(d) To face and address the issue of nuclear war.

2. What does the author do after addressing this issue?
(a) He begins to investigate it.
(b) He wonders what should be done about this issue.
(c) He decides to consider investigating it.
(d) He discusses other issues.

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

4. How is John Stuart Mill viewed?
(a) As having been the most prominent English-speaking thinker in the 19th century.
(b) As having been a fairly prominent philosopher at his time.
(c) As having been the most prominent of all English-speaking thinkers of any time.
(d) As having been a crazy man full of crazy ideas.

5. Can the interference and control of the individual by the state or nation be the preferred course of action?
(a) Yes.
(b) Never.
(c) Rarely.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. What matter does the philosopher then take up?

2. Both law and public opinion have a tendency to do what?

3. What happens to the other goods and services?

4. Why does the author go on to put this liberty into historical context?

5. According to Humboldt, what does every individual need in order to learn himself fully?

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