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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Individual Versus Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rawls want his theory of justice to be?
(a) A viable alternative to other theories.
(b) Something to destroy the theories of Utilitarianism.
(c) The dominant political view.
(d) Something to remember.

3. What year was Adam Smith born?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1923.

4. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?
(a) Money and wealth.
(b) Military might.
(c) Power and glory.
(d) Protection and security.

5. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that going to church is the highest form of pleasure.
(b) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(c) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(d) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

2. Why is the argument called the Original Position?

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

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

5. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

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