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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Has this tendency continued into the 20th and 21st centuries?
(a) No, not currently.
(b) Yes, to some degree.
(c) No, not at all.
(d) Yes, completely.

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

3. Why is their friendship less unusual today?
(a) Since many people do not marry for love but for money.
(b) Since education has been turned into a coeducational experience.
(c) Since husbands and wives are expected to be close companions.
(d) Since family members are often friends.

4. What does Mill begin to set forth?
(a) A proposed idea for running a democracy.
(b) A proposed idea for a behavioral dictum.
(c) A proposed idea for how to elect a leader.
(d) A proposed idea for issuing various freedoms.

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

6. Why does humanity know the truth about the Solar System?
(a) Copernicus' studies were thorough and complete.
(b) The general population has been interested in studying the Solar system.
(c) Humanity does not know the truth about the Solar system.
(d) Those who researched the matter intensively and extensively.

7. Why does the author go on to put this liberty into historical context?
(a) Should readers not be aware of how this has been addressed over the centuries.
(b) Should readers not trust him.
(c) Should readers not understand from where he is coming.
(d) Should readers want to hear stories from the past.

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

9. He asserts his own view that even if only one individual on the entire face of the Earth holds a particular opinion that he or she can do what?
(a) Keep his or her opinion to him or herself.
(b) Quietly mention it.
(c) At least verbally express it.
(d) Listen to others' opinions.

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

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

12. His knowledge could easily have been mistaken for what?
(a) Lies.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Fact.
(d) Mere belief or opinion.

13. What does Mill indicate are all deeply important in how the freedom of each individual is affected by that of the others?
(a) Men's public opinions, women's and the laws of the nation.
(b) Men and women's public opinions.
(c) The laws of the nation and men's public opinions.
(d) Men's public opinions.

14. Is one's opinion powerful?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Yes.
(c) A little.
(d) No.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the author prefer people to do, regarding opposing views?

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

3. In Mill's case, does he typically mean violent factions?

4. Who did Bentham rely upon for support in ideas?

5. What does Mill address and also take a step further?

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