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

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

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

4. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) Their parents.
(d) The king.

5. What do Intuitionist' believe in?
(a) That good and wrong are innately known.
(b) That good and wrong are taught.
(c) That good and wrong are illusions told by the rich.
(d) That good and wrong are revealed by God to the select few.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

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

3. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?

4. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?

5. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

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