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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?
(a) It states who has the power and who doesn't.
(b) It enforces the law.
(c) It ensures that there is an equal distribution of such.
(d) It ensures that some people get more duties than others.

2. What defines a good society, according to Rawls?
(a) A strong society.
(b) A wealthy society.
(c) A just society.
(d) A society that owns the most land.

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

4. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?
(a) That it might be hard to apply to the real world.
(b) That it is quite socialist.
(c) That there is a degree of Marxism within it.
(d) That there is a certain amount of Intuitionism present in 'fairness'.

5. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?
(a) The greatest good for the greatest number.
(b) The greatest good to the wealthiest.
(c) The greatest good to the deserving.
(d) Might makes right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the argument called the Original Position?

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

3. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?

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

5. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?

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