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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is there a tendency in 1800s England, regarding education?
(a) For people to not study any side of an argument, to avoid disagreements.
(b) For people to only teach themselves the opposing side of an argument.
(c) For people to teach themselves both sides of an argument.
(d) For people to teach themselves one side of an argument but not to educate themselves in the opposing views.

2. What are the additional responsibilities that will be included for a democracy?
(a) How to cooperate among themselves.
(b) How to cooperate with a leader.
(c) How to cooperate among a small group of leaders.
(d) How to elect leaders.

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

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

5. Is the author considered a philosopher?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) After his death.

6. The entire chapter is devoted to discussing what?
(a) Whose opinions are correct.
(b) The range of aspects and implications of opinion.
(c) The tyranny that can develop from expressing one's opinions.
(d) Dealing with other's opinions.

7. What did Mary Wollstonecraft support?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Gay rights.
(c) Pro life.
(d) Equality for African Americans.

8. Why is their friendship less unusual today?
(a) Since husbands and wives are expected to be close companions.
(b) Since many people do not marry for love but for money.
(c) Since education has been turned into a coeducational experience.
(d) Since family members are often friends.

9. What is the work done by these two friends?
(a) Their work is mathematical.
(b) Their work is intellectual.
(c) Their work is scientific.
(d) Their work is artistic.

10. Who has been exclusively and specifically an intellectual and emotional companion of J.S. Mill's?
(a) His mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His sister.

11. How was John Stuart's father able to support him and his work?
(a) He used many credit cards.
(b) He worked many jobs.
(c) He acquired a loan.
(d) He was wealthy.

12. When did Mary publish this?
(a) A good decade earlier.
(b) A good decade later.
(c) A good century later.
(d) A good century earlier.

13. Was Mill's attempt the first?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, in the 1800s.

14. What does Mill address and also take a step further?
(a) The issue of fear.
(b) The issue of a dictatorship.
(c) The issue of tyranny.
(d) The issue of inequality.

15. According to Mill, should women bear the full rights of citizenship?
(a) Not completely.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Not until they are married.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what country did Mill help women?

3. Who is John Stuart's father?

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. What does Mill begin to set forth?

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