View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the philosopher argue in favor regarding opposing views?
(a) Accepting others' beliefs as their own.
(b) People staying true to their own beliefs and not listening to opposing views.
(c) Not considering others' faulty beliefs and views.
(d) People learning to at least face and confront their opposition.

2. What is one goal of education during the Middle Ages?
(a) Encourage students to think for themselves and to argue matters through.
(b) Teach students what the adults know.
(c) Prepare students for the afterlife.
(d) Give students false information.

3. What does the author makes clear when he refers to liberty?
(a) He means personal liberty.
(b) He means societal liberty.
(c) He means religious liberty.
(d) He means governmental liberty.

4. What is a danger of more democracy?
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) Frustration.

5. Of what is there a tendency in 1800s England, regarding education?
(a) For people to teach themselves both sides of an argument.
(b) For people to not study any side of an argument, to avoid disagreements.
(c) For people to teach themselves one side of an argument but not to educate themselves in the opposing views.
(d) For people to only teach themselves the opposing side of an argument.

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

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

8. In what did Mill sincerely believe regarding women?
(a) The innate equality of women.
(b) Their innate subservient behavior.
(c) Their feminine intelligence and instincts.
(d) Their inequality.

9. What would the author prefer people to do, regarding opposing views?
(a) People should ridicule those with opposing beliefs.
(b) People should thoroughly learn the opposing viewpoint.
(c) People should ignore them.
(d) People should accept them as their own views.

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

11. What is one topic these friends covered?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Bio hazards.
(d) Lithography.

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

13. What can sharing views do, according to the author?
(a) Enhance life for everyone.
(b) Cause confusion.
(c) Make enemies.
(d) Cause arguments.

14. What aspects did these two study?
(a) The world of mathematics and science.
(b) The world of crime and legislation related to it.
(c) The world of science and technology.
(d) The world of painting and sculpture.

15. In this chapter Mill examines what?
(a) The role of the elected leader in controlling his people.
(b) The role of the monarchy in controlling people.
(c) The role of both legal and nonlegal means of controlling people.
(d) The role of the people in controlling themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does the author confine his criticisms to his own nation?

2. How was J.S. Mill educated?

3. According to Mill, should women bear the full rights of citizenship?

4. About what does Copernicus know?

5. What did Mary publish?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 543 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample