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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 would be a significant social project?
(a) To have opposing viewpoints and not discuss them.
(b) To put this simple idea regarding opponents into practice.
(c) To not have opposing viewpoints.
(d) To avoid clashes altogether.

2. In this chapter Mill examines what?
(a) The role of the people in controlling themselves.
(b) The role of the elected leader in controlling his people.
(c) The role of both legal and nonlegal means of controlling people.
(d) The role of the monarchy in controlling people.

3. What does Mill directly confront regarding this issue?
(a) The reality that a dicatorship would be no better than a monarchy.
(b) The reality that many people fear the idea of democracy.
(c) The inequality for minorities.
(d) A reality that lurks potently beneath the surface of changes in political structures.

4. What altered who could be citizens and who hoped to be, or to become so?
(a) Reduced property restrictions and other qualities.
(b) The beginning of property restrictions and other qualities.
(c) Increased property restriction and other qualities.
(d) The ending of property restrictions and other qualities.

5. Had many of the Europeans were or recently were living under the authority of monarchies and aristocracies?
(a) Few.
(b) Some.
(c) None.
(d) Many.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what was Mill's education very strong?

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

3. Can an opinion be vulnerable to attack once exposed?

4. What is the work done by these two friends?

5. In Mill's case, does he typically mean violent factions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John Stuart Mill's success in helping British women get the right to vote reveal about him?

2. What does the author discuss regarding controlling people?

3. What is said about Aristotle regarding tyranny in this chapter?

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

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

6. How does John Stuart Mill begin this chapter?

7. Describe Mill and his wife's relationship.

8. What role does John Stuart Mill play in the women's movement?

9. What is known about John Stuart Mill's father and brother?

10. What had Mary Wollstonecraft done for the women's movement?

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