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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what did Mill have a personal hand?
(a) Striving to get women voting rights.
(b) Striving to get women to want to vote.
(c) Stiving to get prohibition stopped.
(d) Striving to get African American voting rights.

2. In what was Mill's education very strong?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) The humanities.
(c) The arts.
(d) The sciences.

3. What does John Stuart Mill show about the real challenge regarding one's views?
(a) It is to keep those views to oneself.
(b) It is to face the fact that your beliefs may be wrong.
(c) It is to face the conflict that can emerge when opinions are shared with a view to obtaining the truth of any given matter.
(d) It is to make sure one's views are accurate and without faults.

4. In what country did Mill help women?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) The United States.

5. For how long was this woman his close companion?
(a) An average amount of time.
(b) A very short time.
(c) A somewhat short time.
(d) A very long time.

6. What does the author believe leads to progress?
(a) Clashes that cause trouble.
(b) Clashes that lead to stronger disagreement.
(c) Clashes that bring opponents closer to the truth.
(d) Clashes that end quickly.

7. When does the author believe the clash of opposition is good?
(a) When the clash changes both.
(b) When the clash is not violent.
(c) When the clash is not deadly.
(d) When any clash occurs.

8. In what subjects was his education clearly weak?
(a) Science and humanities.
(b) Art and humanities.
(c) Science and mathematics.
(d) Mathematics and humanities.

9. When did Mary publish this?
(a) A good century later.
(b) A good decade later.
(c) A good century earlier.
(d) A good decade earlier.

10. What took place centuries later, regarding Copernicus' knowledge?
(a) His unpopular opinion has been accepted as true knowledge which has proliferated to the point of being common knowledge.
(b) His popular opinion has been proven wrong.
(c) His popular opinion has been accepted as true knowledge which has proliferated to the point of being common knowledge.
(d) His unpopular opinion has been proven wrong.

11. How does John Stuart Mill begin this chapter?
(a) By discussing past behaviors of monarchies towards liberty.
(b) By discussing the difficulties of freedom.
(c) By introducing a discourse regarding opinion and the expression thereof.
(d) By introductin a discourse regarding tyranny.

12. What is the work done by these two friends?
(a) Their work is mathematical.
(b) Their work is artistic.
(c) Their work is scientific.
(d) Their work is intellectual.

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

14. Was Mill an advocate for the women's rights movement?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Early on in his career.
(d) Somewhat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Can an opinion be vulnerable to attack once exposed?

2. Amongst the British, ________ were one of the categories of members of society who were actively seeking increased rights, responsibilities and liberties within the nations of the Empire, particularly on the isles of Britain herself.

3. Is one's opinion powerful?

4. In this chapter Mill examines what?

5. The Europeans want an increase in rights for whom?

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