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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ignored.
(d) That it may be maximized.

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

3. What does Rawls admit might happen within his just society?
(a) Civil war.
(b) Persecution.
(c) Social and Economic inequality.
(d) Political upheaval.

4. What does Rawls think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?
(a) Military power.
(b) Good trade agreements.
(c) One world government.
(d) Rights.

5. What is the second principle derived from the Original Position
(a) The education is respected.
(b) That the environment is protected.
(c) That disadvantaged people are provided for.
(d) That the Rich are allowed certain tax breaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Totalitarian state?

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

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

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

5. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?

(see the answer key)

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