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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 understand Mill's perspective.
(d) One can agree with all Mill has to say.

4. What did Humboldt believe is the greatest goal in the holistic development of humanity?
(a) To be complete and whole.
(b) To be kind and loving.
(c) To be religious and faithful.
(d) To be happy and healthy.

5. He spends a little time supporting what efforts in America?
(a) The campaign for the Democratic Party.
(b) Improving education.
(c) The prohibition of alcohol.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

6. Which goods or services stay on the market?
(a) The basic.
(b) The best.
(c) The most unusual.
(d) The worst.

7. Do Unitarians face persecution in Mill's society?
(a) Much.
(b) None.
(c) A great deal.
(d) Little.

8. At what does the author look?
(a) The goverrnment's conduct with respect to the two most significant questions.
(b) A nation's conduct with respect to the two most significant questions.
(c) An individual's conduct with respect to the two most significant questions.
(d) The culture's conduct with respect to the two most significant questions.

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

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

11. What is one aspect of trade mentioned?
(a) International Trade.
(b) Union Trade.
(c) Trade Embargo.
(d) Free Trade.

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

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

14. What is the cause of the example he gives?
(a) Employees do not enjoy working late during the week.
(b) An open museum on the Sabbath countermands a religious law.
(c) Patrons want to be able to shop on holidays.
(d) Children do not like to attend school.

15. What matter does the philosopher then take up?
(a) Days off from work.
(b) Educational systems.
(c) The Constitution of the United States.
(d) Religious beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what is separation often conducive?

3. What does Mill believe had a hand in dealing with those who are undisciplined?

4. Should there be choice among competing goods and services?

5. 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?

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