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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 want his theory of justice to be?
(a) A viable alternative to other theories.
(b) Something to remember.
(c) The dominant political view.
(d) Something to destroy the theories of Utilitarianism.

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

3. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(b) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(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.

4. What is the greatest criticism levelled against Utilitarianism?
(a) It is not strong enough.
(b) That majority views are ignored.
(c) That minority views are ignored.
(d) It's not realistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

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

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

4. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

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

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