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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Individual Versus Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?
(a) The king.
(b) Their parents.
(c) God.
(d) Nature.

2. What year was Adam Smith born?
(a) 1623.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1923.

3. Why is the argument called the Original Position?
(a) Because it is about the first thing that a person sees when they wake up.
(b) Because it comes before everything else.
(c) Because it was a very early argument that Rawls revived.
(d) Because it was the first argument Rawls thought of.

4. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?
(a) John Locke.
(b) John Hurt.
(c) Socrates.
(d) J.S. Mill.

5. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?
(a) Seventeenth.
(b) Fifteenth.
(c) Sixteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' argument?

2. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?

3. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?

4. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

5. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

(see the answer key)

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