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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religious sect had the author previously cited?
(a) The Jehovah's Witnesses.
(b) The Presbyterians.
(c) The Lutherans.
(d) The Unitarians.

2. The desire that Humboldt put forth for humanity and the method of exploration that he suggests combined with whose systematic thinking and exploration of ideas all tend to assist the process of thought towards arrival at the whole truth of life and of the reality for people?
(a) James Mill and Harriet Tubman.
(b) Joshua Mill and Hillary Thomas.
(c) John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor.
(d) Justin Mill and Henrietta Toth.

3. For whom is this section written?
(a) Readers of other cultures.
(b) Readers of the future.
(c) Readers of today.
(d) Readers of the author's time.

4. Does the author believe that the notion of 'the Sabbath' requires a religious justification?
(a) Usually.
(b) Often.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

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

6. Why is it a problem that some Mormons openly practice polygamy?
(a) It was practiced in the Old Testament.
(b) It is an unusual practice.
(c) It is shocking to most people.
(d) It is illegal in many states and nations.

7. What does Mill like to see among the common people of language?
(a) Similar culture.
(b) Religion.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Diversity.

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

9. Is it unethical to drive people down into being more slavish and less independent of will and thought?
(a) No.
(b) For some people.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

10. What does the author give the reader regarding this issue?
(a) A few opinions.
(b) A few examples.
(c) A few responses.
(d) A few questions.

11. What is a second question the author focuses on?
(a) What damage would be done to a community when sovereignty exists?
(b) What damage would be done to those who do not want sovereignty?
(c) What damage would be done to the government by allowing individuals sovereignty?
(d) What damage would be done to the individual by restricting his [or her] liberties and controlling the person's behavior?

12. What does Mill believe had a hand in dealing with those who are undisciplined?
(a) The gangs.
(b) The military.
(c) The political parties.
(d) Religion.

13. What happens to the other goods and services?
(a) They recede into the background.
(b) They stay the same.
(c) They permanently fail.
(d) They grown stronger.

14. To what does he refer regarding persecution?
(a) The persecution of his family.
(b) His own and others' reactions to persecute others as he is to the problem of people struggling to survive persecution.
(c) The suffering of the persecuted.
(d) What he has suffered because of persecution.

15. At the end of the text, he is openly referring to what?
(a) The Poor House Law.
(b) The Poverty Rules.
(c) The Poor Law Board.
(d) The Rich Law Board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are some of these points a bit different today?

2. What is the definition of this type of trade?

3. Is taking a dissenting position loudly before an already angry mob free speech?

4. What does the author imply that exist to make the best of the citizenry?

5. How would many argue against Humboldt's beliefs?

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