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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. 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 going to church is the highest form of pleasure.
(c) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(d) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.

2. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?
(a) Republicanism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Utilitarianism.

3. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?
(a) Because the monarch told them so.
(b) Because they are taught what to believe.
(c) Because God told them so.
(d) Because of an innate knowledge of fairness.

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

5. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?
(a) All their freedoms.
(b) The right to defend themselves.
(c) The right to own property.
(d) Complete freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rawls want his theory of justice to be?

2. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?

3. What do Intuitionist' believe in?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What, according to Rawls, are other notions of justice?

2. In what way is Democracy still a Utilitarian system?

3. How did John Stuart Mill seek to redefine the Utilitarian maxim?

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

5. When was Intuitionism first developed?

6. In Rawls’ estimation, why is fairness the best virtue for society?

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

8. Why does Rawls prefer the Social Contract Theory?

9. What does an Intuitionist believe is the innate?

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

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