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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Two Principles of Justice.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the implicit assumption that the Social Contract theory makes?
(a) That there is a God.
(b) That there is a scientific truth.
(c) That everyone intrinsically knows right from wrong.
(d) That there is some form of agreement between Individual and government.

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

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

5. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?
(a) Money and wealth.
(b) Power and glory.
(c) Military might.
(d) Protection and security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?

2. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

3. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?

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

5. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?

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