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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does the author address at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) To what extent the government or the attendant culture and community have a just claim to control the individual.
(b) What will be the cause of sovereignty.
(c) Who will control the government or the attendant culture and community.
(d) Who will feel the need for sovereignty.

2. To what does the author make it clear that he is opposed?
(a) Intoxicants.
(b) Relaxing.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Religion.

3. For today's readers, do many of the points remain salient?
(a) Yes.
(b) Very few.
(c) Possibly.
(d) No.

4. What the author implies exists are also available for whom?
(a) Those who are dependent upon others.
(b) Those who are poor.
(c) Those who are not poor.
(d) Those who are not wealthy.

5. To what does the author refer regarding variety of situation?
(a) The unity of all the villages in a country.
(b) The rapidly passing era when every village had it's own ways and greater dissimilarity from the next.
(c) The common language and culture found throughout a nation.
(d) The similarities between one village and the next.

6. What is of great concern to the philosopher, regarding human nature and character of individuality?
(a) Finding out how extreme one's behavior can be and be accepted in society.
(b) Finding out one's own beliefs.
(c) Finding out how to deal with opposing views.
(d) Finding their proper place and balance within the society.

7. What is the definition of this type of trade?
(a) The state will not regulate the manufacturing and marketing of products but that competition in the marketplace without monopoly.
(b) Only trade unions may participate in this form of trade.
(c) This is trade between many countries.
(d) This isolates a country by not allowing it to trade with others.

8. What does he also want to do regarding these principles?
(a) He wants others to understand them.
(b) He wants to see and understand the best means of implementing these to the moral advantage and improvement of the culture.
(c) He wants to see and understand them.
(d) He wants to share them with the world.

9. From what century is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?
(a) The 19th century.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 17th century.
(d) The 16th century.

10. How does the author begin this chapter?
(a) With a demand.
(b) With a statement.
(c) With a question.
(d) With a request.

11. What does the author imply that exist to make the best of the citizenry?
(a) Programs.
(b) Various social policies.
(c) Schools.
(d) Organizations.

12. Are some of these points a bit different today?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Only a few.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author take the matter discussed in previous chapters into a deeper discussion?

2. What do the author's intentions appear to be regarding the writing of this book?

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

4. What, along with sufficient opportunities to express the nature, are all conducive to a healthy and vigorous individual and society according to Mill?

5. Who does the author assert endeavors to make everyone alike?

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