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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?
(a) It perceives persons only as voters.
(b) Utilitarianism is never applied to the individual.
(c) That different people’s situations mean different levels of happiness, contentment or suffering.
(d) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.

2. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?
(a) Nature.
(b) God.
(c) The king.
(d) Their parents.

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

4. What do Intuitionist' believe in?
(a) That good and wrong are revealed by God to the select few.
(b) That good and wrong are taught.
(c) That good and wrong are innately known.
(d) That good and wrong are illusions told by the rich.

5. In what era was the theory of the Social Contract in favor?
(a) The Dark Ages.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Enlightenment.
(d) The Modern Era.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?

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

4. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

5. What is another name for the Original Position?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is fairness always the same as equality, according to Rawls?

2. According to the Social Contract Theory, what does the individual willingly sacrifice, and what are they rewarded in return?

3. How does Rawls seek to 'fix' or solve Intuitionism?

4. What does Rawls hope to do with this Theory of Justice?

5. What is the difference between the 'good' society and the Eudaimon, of 'Good Life' that Aristotle and Plato advocated?

6. What is the popular definition of a Utilitarian object?

7. What is the problem of inclusion in the Social Contract Theory?

8. What concept do Utilitarian thinkers seek to redefine in their own theory?

9. What does it seem rational that the hypothetical person in the Original Position chooses?

10. In what way is the Original Position a proponent of Intuition or Innate Ideas?

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