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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what century is Wilhelm Von Humboldt?
(a) The 17th century.
(b) The 19th century.
(c) The 18th century.
(d) The 16th century.

3. To what is separation often conducive?
(a) Much individuation.
(b) Understanding.
(c) At least some individuation.
(d) No individuation.

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

5. For today's readers, do many of the points remain salient?
(a) No.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Yes.
(d) Very few.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what cases might the government need to take action?

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

3. What is the definition of this type of trade?

4. John Stuart Mill completes the book ON LIBERTY by doing what?

5. What has an adverse effect upon separation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mill believe should be nurtured?

2. How does the author pursue an investigation to attempt to find an answer to his first question?

3. With what question does the author begin this chapter?

4. What does the author say about finding one's proper place and balance within society?

5. What does Mill say about the impact of how one expresses his or her opinions?

6. To what does this analysis lead?

7. What does the author say about taking days off from work?

8. What does J.S. Mill imply at the end of the text regarding the nurturing of society?

9. What is the author's belief that will happen if a government does not nurture its citizens?

10. What are two of the most significant questions regarding one's conduct?

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