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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 those who do not have their basic needs met.
(b) For the sake of protecting people from the harsh truths and realities of life.
(c) For the sake of those who are unintelligent or uneducated.
(d) For the sake of avoiding that which might well be best left uncultivated within an individual.

2. Regarding the previous question, does Mill believe that this is ideal?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

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

4. 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) Fear and concern.
(c) Understanding and empathy.
(d) Love and compassion.

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

6. What specifically is one thing the author addresses at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) How will people adjust to having sovereignty.
(b) Who will feel the need for sovereignty.
(c) What amount of sovereignty each individual preserves over himself or herself.
(d) What will be the cause of sovereignty.

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

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

9. Are strong individuals, the active ones, and those of strong passions, emotions, impulses and energies an inherent problem for any nation?
(a) Often.
(b) No.
(c) Possibly.
(d) Yes.

10. What happens to the other goods and services?
(a) They stay the same.
(b) They grown stronger.
(c) They permanently fail.
(d) They recede into the background.

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

12. What is one example that he cites regarding persecution?
(a) Objections to having late business hours during the week.
(b) Fierce objections against museums being open on the Sabbath.
(c) The closing of businesses for a national holiday.
(d) Complaints by school children for having to attend school during bad weather.

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

14. What does Mill want to see regarding his principles?
(a) How these can be applied within the culture as laws of the government.
(b) How these can affect a community.
(c) How these can be applied within an individual's life.
(d) How these can be rewritten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To drive the people down into being more slavish and less independent of will and of thought is to do what?

2. What is one significant question the author wants to answer?

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

4. What matter does the philosopher then take up?

5. Would Mill's ancient predecessor have agreed with Mill?

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