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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Social Contract.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?
(a) Fifteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Sixteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

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

4. What does Rawls claim about the Social Contract theory?
(a) It is better than Marxism.
(b) It is the only philosophy that makes sense.
(c) It is better than Utilitarian theory.
(d) It is ridiculous.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

(see the answer key)

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