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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What defines a good society, according to Rawls?
(a) A society that owns the most land.
(b) A wealthy society.
(c) A just society.
(d) A strong society.

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

4. Why is the argument called the Original Position?
(a) Because it is about the first thing that a person sees when they wake up.
(b) Because it comes before everything else.
(c) Because it was the first argument Rawls thought of.
(d) Because it was a very early argument that Rawls revived.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?

2. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?

3. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?

4. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?

5. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

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