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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author makes clear when he refers to liberty?
(a) He means societal liberty.
(b) He means governmental liberty.
(c) He means religious liberty.
(d) He means personal liberty.

2. Was Mill an advocate for the women's rights movement?
(a) No.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Early on in his career.
(d) Yes.

3. In what did Mill sincerely believe regarding women?
(a) Their inequality.
(b) Their innate subservient behavior.
(c) Their feminine intelligence and instincts.
(d) The innate equality of women.

4. What was part of the work of these two friends?
(a) To face and address the issue of nuclear war.
(b) To face and address some difficult mathematical equations.
(c) To face and address some of the least popular aspects of culture.
(d) To face and address the issue of art of their time becoming stale and boring.

5. What does John Stuart Mill show about the real challenge regarding one's views?
(a) It is to make sure one's views are accurate and without faults.
(b) It is to face the fact that your beliefs may be wrong.
(c) It is to keep those views to oneself.
(d) It is to face the conflict that can emerge when opinions are shared with a view to obtaining the truth of any given matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another topic these two cover?

2. What is another major benefit of giving freedom and safety to voice individual opinions within society?

3. How is John Stuart Mill viewed?

4. During the Middle Ages, on what had logical premises been founded?

5. What does Mill indicate are all deeply important in how the freedom of each individual is affected by that of the others?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mill and his wife's relationship.

2. How does John Stuart Mill begin this chapter?

3. With what does the book begin? Why?

4. What is the story of Copernicus?

5. What does Mill believe about freedoms of speech?

6. What does the author say about tyranny?

7. What does John Stuart Mill say about the education system in Great Britain in the 1800s? How can one relate to this today?

8. How can one learn by expressing one's opinion?

9. How is this author considered a philosopher?

10. What is one goal of the education system in the Middle Ages?

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