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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, along with sufficient opportunities to express the nature, are all conducive to a healthy and vigorous individual and society according to Mill?
(a) Discipline and control.
(b) Love and compassion.
(c) Fear and concern.
(d) Understanding and empathy.

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

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

4. What is one strength of this book?
(a) One can read it very quickly.
(b) One can transfer the applicability of the principles and observations made to the present culture and time.
(c) One can agree with all Mill has to say.
(d) One can understand Mill's perspective.

5. What does Mill believe is under attack?
(a) Love and empathy.
(b) Discipline and control.
(c) Freedom and variety of situations.
(d) Life and liberty.

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

7. What exists today that the author did not mention?
(a) Trade embargos.
(b) Bartering.
(c) Free trade agreements.
(d) Laws that regulate what is allowed to be on the market and what is not.

8. What does the philosopher make clear regarding these two questions?
(a) One is more important than the other.
(b) Both sets of actions and consequences need to be taken into account.
(c) There are many other important questions.
(d) Neither may be important, depending on the situation.

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

10. According to the author, what is persecution?
(a) When one person does not like another person.
(b) A reaction of people to others.
(c) When an individual or group physicalls assaults another.
(d) When an individual or a group emotionally or physically abuses another.

11. Do Mormons face persecution in Mill's society?
(a) Most certainly.
(b) No.
(c) Very little.
(d) An insignificant amount.

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

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

14. Between what does the author differentiate?
(a) Opinions that are factual and should be expressed and those that are false.
(b) Specific locations and situations in which one may express his or her opinion.
(c) What is an opinion and what is a fact.
(d) The legitimate use of free speech and the acts of instigation and provocation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What specifically is one thing the author addresses at the beginning of this chapter?

2. Who is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?

3. To what group of individuals could the author be compared, based on his beliefs about religion?

4. Can the interference and control of the individual by the state or nation be the preferred course of action?

5. Regarding the previous question, does Mill believe that this is ideal?

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