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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Mary Wollstonecraft support?
(a) Pro life.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Equality for African Americans.
(d) Gay rights.

3. What does the author believe members of society need to have nurtured?
(a) Their mental capabilities and other attributes.
(b) The education.
(c) Their physical capabilties.
(d) Their interests.

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

5. What, along with sufficient opportunities to express the nature, are all conducive to a healthy and vigorous individual and society according to Mill?
(a) Fear and concern.
(b) Discipline and control.
(c) Understanding and empathy.
(d) Love and compassion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Here John Stuart Mill addresses the impact of what regarding expressing one's opinions?

2. Is one's opinion powerful?

3. When should drugs be used?

4. What does the author believe leads to progress?

5. In England, why did the number of prisoners increase?

(see the answer key)

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