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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he also want to do regarding these principles?
(a) He wants to see and understand the best means of implementing these to the moral advantage and improvement of the culture.
(b) He wants to share them with the world.
(c) He wants others to understand them.
(d) He wants to see and understand them.

2. What does the author do after addressing this issue?
(a) He wonders what should be done about this issue.
(b) He decides to consider investigating it.
(c) He begins to investigate it.
(d) He discusses other issues.

3. Regarding the previous question, does Mill believe that this is ideal?
(a) Yes.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

4. How does the author take the matter discussed in previous chapters into a deeper discussion?
(a) He delves deeper into the individuality of people within a society.
(b) He delves deeper into the obstacles facing democracies.
(c) He delves deeper into the compromising of people in a society.
(d) He delves deeper into the effects of tyranny.

5. John Stuart Mill completes the book ON LIBERTY by doing what?
(a) Making a few incredibly important assertions about the state.
(b) Thanking his wife for her help.
(c) Contemplating the future.
(d) Restating his principles.

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

7. Where does this example take place?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Stockholm.
(d) London.

8. Are some of these points a bit different today?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only a few.

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

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

11. To what group of individuals could the author be compared, based on his beliefs about religion?
(a) Unitarians.
(b) Marxists.
(c) Mormons.
(d) Humanists.

12. What does the philosopher make clear regarding these two questions?
(a) Both sets of actions and consequences need to be taken into account.
(b) Neither may be important, depending on the situation.
(c) One is more important than the other.
(d) There are many other important questions.

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

14. Would Mill's ancient predecessor have agreed with Mill?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

15. To what does he refer regarding persecution?
(a) The persecution of his family.
(b) The suffering of the persecuted.
(c) His own and others' reactions to persecute others as he is to the problem of people struggling to survive persecution.
(d) What he has suffered because of persecution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does the author believe that the notion of 'the Sabbath' requires a religious justification?

2. What is one example that he cites regarding persecution?

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

4. What other countries does the author also believe have become more alike to one another?

5. What is the cause of the example he gives?

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