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

2. Are some of these points a bit different today?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Only a few.

3. What is the main focus of the entire work?
(a) Deciding who should be allowed to have individual freedoms.
(b) To discuss various opposing ideas.
(c) Divining the proper limitations of individual liberty and governmental authority.
(d) Creating a culture where most people are allowed certain liberties.

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

5. What religious sect had the author previously cited?
(a) The Jehovah's Witnesses.
(b) The Presbyterians.
(c) The Lutherans.
(d) The Unitarians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is it a problem that some Mormons openly practice polygamy?

3. What does Mill like to see among the common people of language?

4. Who does the author believe can be a very real problem?

5. For whom is this section written?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does J.S. Mill imply at the end of the text regarding the nurturing of society?

2. What religious group does Mill mention suffering from persecution?

3. Who is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?

4. Is this discussion of trade relevant for readers of today? Why or why not?

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

6. How might the ideas and methods of Humboldt, Mill, and Taylor be useful?

7. What does Mill believe should be nurtured?

8. What is the purpose of this chapter?

9. What else does the author want to do with his principles?

10. What does Mill observe about Mormons?

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