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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What the author implies exists are often directed to whom?
(a) The poor.
(b) The intelligent.
(c) The well educated.
(d) The wealthy.

2. Can the interference and control of the individual by the state or nation be the preferred course of action?
(a) Yes.
(b) Rarely.
(c) No.
(d) Never.

3. What does the author imply that exist to make the best of the citizenry?
(a) Various social policies.
(b) Programs.
(c) Organizations.
(d) Schools.

4. What is the author now interested in figuring out, regarding the principles?
(a) How to apply the principles to his local community.
(b) How to reevaluate the principles.
(c) How to apply the principles to his life.
(d) How to apply the principles that he has discussed so far.

5. What religious sect does he address now?
(a) The Church of the Brethren.
(b) The Seventh Day Adventists.
(c) The Baptists.
(d) The Mormons.

6. Should there be choice among competing goods and services?
(a) No.
(b) Some.
(c) Very little.
(d) Yes.

7. Which goods or services stay on the market?
(a) The most unusual.
(b) The worst.
(c) The basic.
(d) The best.

8. What does Mill believe is under attack?
(a) Freedom and variety of situations.
(b) Discipline and control.
(c) Love and empathy.
(d) Life and liberty.

9. Why is it a problem that some Mormons openly practice polygamy?
(a) It is shocking to most people.
(b) It is illegal in many states and nations.
(c) It was practiced in the Old Testament.
(d) It is an unusual practice.

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

11. Between what does the author differentiate?
(a) The legitimate use of free speech and the acts of instigation and provocation.
(b) Specific locations and situations in which one may express his or her opinion.
(c) Opinions that are factual and should be expressed and those that are false.
(d) What is an opinion and what is a fact.

12. What does Mill like to see among the common people of language?
(a) Religion.
(b) Diversity.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Similar culture.

13. For the most part, does the philosopher urge the government to take action regarding this type of trade?
(a) No.
(b) Usually.
(c) Yes.
(d) Often.

14. How does the author begin this chapter?
(a) With a question.
(b) With a request.
(c) With a statement.
(d) With a demand.

15. At the end of the text, he is openly referring to what?
(a) The Poor House Law.
(b) The Poverty Rules.
(c) The Rich Law Board.
(d) The Poor Law Board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has provided a grand support of Mill's statement regarding variety of situation?

2. What exists today that the author did not mention?

3. Do Mormons face persecution in Mill's society?

4. At what does the author look?

5. According to the author, what is persecution?

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