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

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

3. What is the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' argument?
(a) A garment worn by politicians.
(b) A metaphor to describe different types of citizens.
(c) A metaphor for a different type of belief.
(d) A metaphor for not being able to tell what kind of society one will later be in.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Original Position?

2. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

3. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

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

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

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