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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What has an adverse effect upon separation?
(a) Improved communications and other systems that 'break down distance.'
(b) The desire to have similar belief systems.
(c) A need for differentiation.
(d) Weakened communications.

3. What do the author's intentions appear to be regarding the writing of this book?
(a) To come up with something that will help him to express his opinions.
(b) To come up with something useful for today's readers.
(c) To come up with something to give his contemporaries hope.
(d) To come up with something useful to his contemporaries within the 'liberal movement.'

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

5. 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 are unintelligent or uneducated.
(c) For the sake of avoiding that which might well be best left uncultivated within an individual.
(d) For the sake of those who do not have their basic needs met.

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

7. What does John Stuart Mill repeat is needed and beneficial to humanity on the whole?
(a) Diversity of situations.
(b) Diverse races.
(c) Similar language.
(d) Similar culture.

8. What other countries does the author also believe have become more alike to one another?
(a) The Mexicans and the Americans.
(b) The British and French.
(c) The Germans and the Russians.
(d) The Americans and Canadians.

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

10. To what group of individuals could the author be compared, based on his beliefs about religion?
(a) Humanists.
(b) Unitarians.
(c) Marxists.
(d) Mormons.

11. Who has provided a grand support of Mill's statement regarding variety of situation?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The French.
(d) The Germans.

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

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

14. 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 their proper place and balance within the society.
(c) Finding out how to deal with opposing views.
(d) Finding out one's own beliefs.

15. Who does the author assert endeavors to make everyone alike?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Norwegians.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) The South Africans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mill say about when one might pass a village or two away from one's home?

3. What does Mill want to see regarding his principles?

4. Is it unethical to drive people down into being more slavish and less independent of will and thought?

5. At the end of the text, he is openly referring to what?

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