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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Of the Limits to the Authority of the Society over the Individual.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For millions, if knowledge of the solar system were not proliferated and supporting information both provided and explained would the majority conclude from direct personal experience that the planets travel around the Sun?
(a) Most.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

2. What is one strength of this book?
(a) One can read it very quickly.
(b) One can transfer the applicability of the principles and observations made to the present culture and time.
(c) One can understand Mill's perspective.
(d) One can agree with all Mill has to say.

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

4. Despite the reality that Mill's idea is far from new, it is what?
(a) Often the case in reality.
(b) Never the case in reality.
(c) Relatively rarely the case in reality.
(d) Always the case in reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. He asserts his own view that even if only one individual on the entire face of the Earth holds a particular opinion that he or she can do what?

2. Would this social project be easy?

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

4. Amongst the British, ________ were one of the categories of members of society who were actively seeking increased rights, responsibilities and liberties within the nations of the Empire, particularly on the isles of Britain herself.

5. To what does this analysis lead?

(see the answer key)

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