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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. At the end of the text, he is openly referring to what?
(a) The Rich Law Board.
(b) The Poor House Law.
(c) The Poor Law Board.
(d) The Poverty Rules.

2. What does Mill say about when one might pass a village or two away from one's home?
(a) The people can barely be understood because they are as distinctive as if the next town were the next nation.
(b) The people are odd and uninviting.
(c) The people are unwelcoming and cold.
(d) The people are much like those in one's own village.

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

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

5. What does the author mean by state?
(a) Nation or country.
(b) Divisions of Great Britain.
(c) State of mind.
(d) States within the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author begin this chapter?

2. What the author implies exists are often directed to whom?

3. For today's readers, do many of the points remain salient?

4. What does Mill do regarding trade?

5. Can the interference and control of the individual by the state or nation be the preferred course of action?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would Aristotle have worded this previous statement about nurturing?

2. Who is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?

3. To what does this analysis lead?

4. What has been the reaction to people who have trouble finding their proper place and balance within society?

5. How does the author pursue an investigation to attempt to find an answer to his first question?

6. What does Mill have to say about one's place in society in the Victorian age?

7. To what is the author opposed? How does he support his beliefs regarding this issue?

8. What does the author say about finding one's proper place and balance within society?

9. What does Mill believe is under attack?

10. What does Mill believe should be nurtured?

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