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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. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Political.
(c) Epistemology.
(d) Metaphysics.

2. What does Rawls think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?
(a) Rights.
(b) Military power.
(c) One world government.
(d) Good trade agreements.

3. In what era was the theory of the Social Contract in favor?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Modern Era.
(c) The Dark Ages.
(d) The Enlightenment.

4. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that going to church is the highest form of pleasure.
(b) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(c) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(d) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who should hold the greatest advantage in Rawls’ ideal society?

2. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?

3. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?

4. What year was Adam Smith born?

5. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

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