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

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

3. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?
(a) That it be at least a beautiful land.
(b) That it would be at least a strong society.
(c) That it would be at least fair.
(d) That it be at least a wealthy society.

4. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?
(a) Because he thought people were stupid.
(b) Because he thought that was the law of nature.
(c) Because he thought people were naturally brutish.
(d) Because he thought it would help the British Empire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?

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

3. What does Rawls think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?

4. What year was Adam Smith born?

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

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