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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Fifteenth.
(c) Eighteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

5. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?
(a) Socrates.
(b) John Locke.
(c) J.S. Mill.
(d) John Hurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?

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

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

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

5. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?

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