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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Critique of Utilitarianism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(c) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(d) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.

2. Who should hold the greatest advantage in Rawls’ ideal society?
(a) The royals.
(b) The rich.
(c) The poor.
(d) No one.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the greatest criticism levelled against Utilitarianism?

2. What does Rawls want his theory of justice to be?

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

4. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

5. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?

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