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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would many argue against Humboldt's beliefs?
(a) For the sake of avoiding that which might well be best left uncultivated within an individual.
(b) For the sake of those who are unintelligent or uneducated.
(c) For the sake of protecting people from the harsh truths and realities of life.
(d) For the sake of those who do not have their basic needs met.

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

3. What does the author believe regarding medicines?
(a) They are very dangerous.
(b) They are useless.
(c) Under certain circumstances they may be warranted.
(d) They should never be used.

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

5. Who is J.S. Mill's ancient predecessor?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

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

7. To what is separation often conducive?
(a) At least some individuation.
(b) No individuation.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Much individuation.

8. What does the author do after addressing this issue?
(a) He discusses other issues.
(b) He begins to investigate it.
(c) He decides to consider investigating it.
(d) He wonders what should be done about this issue.

9. What does Mill say about when one might pass a village or two away from one's home?
(a) The people can barely be understood because they are as distinctive as if the next town were the next nation.
(b) The people are much like those in one's own village.
(c) The people are odd and uninviting.
(d) The people are unwelcoming and cold.

10. Is taking a dissenting position loudly before an already angry mob free speech?
(a) Yes.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Possibly.
(d) No.

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

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

13. To drive the people down into being more slavish and less independent of will and of thought is to do what?
(a) Make a difficult decision.
(b) Make a somewhat poor choice.
(c) Make a grievous error.
(d) Follow the rules of one's culture.

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

15. John Stuart Mill completes the book ON LIBERTY by doing what?
(a) Making a few incredibly important assertions about the state.
(b) Thanking his wife for her help.
(c) Contemplating the future.
(d) Restating his principles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Stuart Mill repeat is needed and beneficial to humanity on the whole?

2. Here John Stuart Mill addresses the impact of what regarding expressing one's opinions?

3. Who does the author believe can be a very real problem?

4. Who has provided a grand support of Mill's statement regarding variety of situation?

5. According to Mill, is it immoral for a government to deny its own people development?

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