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

2. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?
(a) Because he thought that was the law of nature.
(b) Because he thought it would help the British Empire.
(c) Because he thought people were stupid.
(d) Because he thought people were naturally brutish.

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

4. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?
(a) Socrates.
(b) John Locke.
(c) J.S. Mill.
(d) John Hurt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the implicit assumption that the Social Contract theory makes?

2. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

3. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?

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

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

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