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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Individual Liberties.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rawls admit might happen within his just society?
(a) Social and Economic inequality.
(b) Civil war.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Political upheaval.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the second principle derived from the Original Position

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

4. What defines a good society, according to Rawls?

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

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