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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Socrates.
(c) John Hurt.
(d) J.S. Mill.

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

5. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?
(a) That there is a degree of Marxism within it.
(b) That it might be hard to apply to the real world.
(c) That there is a certain amount of Intuitionism present in 'fairness'.
(d) That it is quite socialist.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the chapter “The Original Position,” what does Rawls say must be assumed about the person?

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