View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Social Equality and Inequality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?
(a) That it be at least a wealthy society.
(b) That it would be at least fair.
(c) That it would be at least a strong society.
(d) That it be at least a beautiful land.

2. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?
(a) Because he thought that was the law of nature.
(b) Because he thought it would help the British Empire.
(c) Because he thought people were naturally brutish.
(d) Because he thought people were stupid.

3. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?
(a) The right to own property.
(b) The right to defend themselves.
(c) Complete freedom.
(d) All their freedoms.

4. What is the second principle derived from the Original Position
(a) The education is respected.
(b) That the environment is protected.
(c) That disadvantaged people are provided for.
(d) That the Rich are allowed certain tax breaks.

5. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?
(a) It perceives persons only as voters.
(b) That different people’s situations mean different levels of happiness, contentment or suffering.
(c) Utilitarianism is never applied to the individual.
(d) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Adam Smith born?

2. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?

3. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

4. What does Rawls think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?

5. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 268 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample