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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 the essential problem of Intuitionism?
(a) It makes defending one’s country more difficult.
(b) Some people do not seem to act with a natural morality.
(c) Many philosophers don't agree with it.
(d) It doesn't support a healthy economy.

2. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Sixteenth.
(c) Seventeenth.
(d) Fifteenth.

3. 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 ensures that some people get more duties than others.
(c) It enforces the law.
(d) It states who has the power and who doesn't.

4. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?
(a) Because God told them so.
(b) Because the monarch told them so.
(c) Because they are taught what to believe.
(d) Because of an innate knowledge of fairness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

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

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

4. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?

5. Why is the argument called the Original Position?

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