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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Original Position.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?

2. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

3. What is the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' argument?

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

5. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?

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