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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 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 be at least a beautiful land.
(c) That it would be at least fair.
(d) That it would be at least a strong society.

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

3. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?
(a) Utilitarianism.
(b) Republicanism.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Socialism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the second principle derived from the Original Position

3. What does Rawls claim about the Social Contract theory?

4. What is another name for the Original Position?

5. What does Rawls admit might happen within his just society?

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