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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this chapter Mill examines what?
(a) The role of both legal and nonlegal means of controlling people.
(b) The role of the monarchy in controlling people.
(c) The role of the people in controlling themselves.
(d) The role of the elected leader in controlling his people.

2. How was J.S. Mill educated?
(a) He attended public school.
(b) He was homeschooled.
(c) He attended a private school.
(d) He went to boarding school.

3. How is John Stuart Mill viewed?
(a) As having been the most prominent of all English-speaking thinkers of any time.
(b) As having been a fairly prominent philosopher at his time.
(c) As having been the most prominent English-speaking thinker in the 19th century.
(d) As having been a crazy man full of crazy ideas.

4. What was J.S. Mill to the women's movement?
(a) A dream come true.
(b) A slight help.
(c) A nuisance.
(d) A terror.

5. The Europeans want an increase in rights for whom?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) A larger portion of the populace.
(c) The elderly.
(d) A smaller portion of the populace.

6. What was part of the work of these two friends?
(a) To face and address the issue of nuclear war.
(b) To face and address the issue of art of their time becoming stale and boring.
(c) To face and address some difficult mathematical equations.
(d) To face and address some of the least popular aspects of culture.

7. What is another major benefit of giving freedom and safety to voice individual opinions within society?
(a) Those who know the truth can keep it to themselves.
(b) Those who are mistaken will continue to believe only themselves.
(c) Those who are mistaken can come to see the truth.
(d) Those who know the truth can share it with others.

8. Have the British been connected to this European relationship?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) Much later.

9. Who is John Stuart's father?
(a) James Mill.
(b) Jeremy Mill.
(c) Joshua Mill.
(d) John Mill.

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

11. There was a great movement toward greater _____________ for the peoples of Europe.
(a) Dependence.
(b) Fear.
(c) War.
(d) Independence.

12. 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 many people fear the idea of democracy.
(d) The reality that a dicatorship would be no better than a monarchy.

13. What altered who could be citizens and who hoped to be, or to become so?
(a) Increased property restriction and other qualities.
(b) Reduced property restrictions and other qualities.
(c) The beginning of property restrictions and other qualities.
(d) The ending of property restrictions and other qualities.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Was Mill's attempt the first?

2. What does the author believe leads to progress?

3. Despite the reality that Mill's idea is far from new, it is what?

4. What does the author makes clear when he refers to liberty?

5. Why does humanity know the truth about the Solar System?

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