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

2. What is another name for the Original Position?
(a) The Brain in the Vat Argument.
(b) The Man in the Barrel Argument.
(c) The First Argument.
(d) The Waiting Room Argument.

3. What do Intuitionist' believe in?
(a) That good and wrong are revealed by God to the select few.
(b) That good and wrong are innately known.
(c) That good and wrong are illusions told by the rich.
(d) That good and wrong are taught.

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

5. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?
(a) Because they are taught what to believe.
(b) Because God told them so.
(c) Because of an innate knowledge of fairness.
(d) Because the monarch told them so.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?

2. In the chapter “The Original Position,” what does Rawls say must be assumed about the person?

3. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

4. Why is the argument called the Original Position?

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

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