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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. 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 was a very early argument that Rawls revived.
(c) Because it was the first argument Rawls thought of.
(d) Because it comes before everything else.

2. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?
(a) It enforces the law.
(b) It ensures that there is an equal distribution of such.
(c) It states who has the power and who doesn't.
(d) It ensures that some people get more duties than others.

3. 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 intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(c) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(d) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.

4. What is the only caveat to a maximum liberty of the individual?
(a) That the individual does not impede anyone else's liberty.
(b) That the individual does not challenge the powers that be.
(c) That the individual is god-fearing.
(d) That the individual does not make too much money.

5. What is assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?
(a) That it may be minimized.
(b) That it is the only important virtue.
(c) That it may be maximized.
(d) That it may be ignored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?

2. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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