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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 another name for the Original Position?
(a) The Waiting Room Argument.
(b) The Brain in the Vat Argument.
(c) The First Argument.
(d) The Man in the Barrel Argument.

2. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Strength.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Justice.

3. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Spinoza.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) David Hume.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who should hold the greatest advantage in Rawls’ ideal society?

3. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?

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

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

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