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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 does Mill directly confront regarding this issue?
(a) The reality that a dicatorship would be no better than a monarchy.
(b) The reality that many people fear the idea of democracy.
(c) A reality that lurks potently beneath the surface of changes in political structures.
(d) The inequality for minorities.

2. With regard to personal behavior, what does Mill espouse?
(a) Each individual deserves the freedom to do as he or she wills and wishes given the limitation that to thwart, oppress or oppose the will of others is wrong.
(b) Only some people deserve freedoms, and may oppress the oppostion's freedoms.
(c) Each individual deserves some freedoms, and that to thwart, oppress or oppose the will of others is wrong.
(d) Each individual deserves the freedom to do as he or she will, as long as it follows the beliefs of the leader in power.

3. To what does this analysis lead?
(a) Mill and Taylor showing how intereference is always needed.
(b) Mill and Taylor showing how there are times when the interference and control of the individual by the state is entirely legitimate.
(c) Mill and Tayolor showing how control of an individual takes away his or her right to liberty.
(d) Mill and Taylor showing how interference is never needed.

4. Despite the reality that Mill's idea is far from new, it is what?
(a) Relatively rarely the case in reality.
(b) Never the case in reality.
(c) Often the case in reality.
(d) Always the case in reality.

5. What is one example that he cites regarding persecution?
(a) The closing of businesses for a national holiday.
(b) Complaints by school children for having to attend school during bad weather.
(c) Objections to having late business hours during the week.
(d) Fierce objections against museums being open on the Sabbath.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what group of individuals could the author be compared, based on his beliefs about religion?

2. At the end of the text, he is openly referring to what?

3. What would be a significant social project?

4. What, along with sufficient opportunities to express the nature, are all conducive to a healthy and vigorous individual and society according to Mill?

5. How was John Stuart's father able to support him and his work?

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