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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Of the Liberty of Thought & Discussion.

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) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

2. What does the author say happens in most cultures regarding private behavior?
(a) Private behavior was publicly regulated to intense extremes.
(b) Private behavior did not exist.
(c) Private behavior was somewhat regulated.
(d) Private behavior had no restrictions.

3. Towards what was there a Continental attitude?
(a) A desire for a socialist government.
(b) Self-government as an idea that was international.
(c) Self-government as an idea that was new and unusual.
(d) A desire to return to the days of a monarchy.

4. What did Mary publish?
(a) A Vindication of the Rights of the Black Man.
(b) A Vindication of the Rights of the Unborn.
(c) A Vindication of the Rights of the Homosexual.
(d) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

5. What is one topic these friends covered?
(a) Lithography.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Bio hazards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Stuart's father loom large in relevance during John Stuart's earliest years?

2. How was J.S. Mill educated?

3. What does the author think of destructive attacks against an opinion?

4. Has this tendency continued into the 20th and 21st centuries?

5. What does John Stuart Mill show about the real challenge regarding one's views?

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