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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a Totalitarian state?
(a) The opposite of a democracy.
(b) A type of religious state.
(c) A type of secular state.
(d) A type of economic system.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?

3. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?

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

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

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