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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) That different people’s situations mean different levels of happiness, contentment or suffering.
(b) Utilitarianism is never applied to the individual.
(c) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.
(d) It perceives persons only as voters.

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

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

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

5. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?
(a) That it is quite socialist.
(b) That it might be hard to apply to the real world.
(c) That there is a degree of Marxism within it.
(d) That there is a certain amount of Intuitionism present in 'fairness'.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Original Position?

2. In what era was the theory of the Social Contract in favor?

3. What is the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' argument?

4. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?

5. What do Intuitionist' believe in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the implicit argument in Social Contract Theory?

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

3. What does Rawls see as the problem of Intuition?

4. What is one of the essential difficulties of Utilitarian theory?

5. Does Social Contract Theory have an opt-out policy?

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

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

8. What was the rival school to Utilitarian thought during the 20th Century?

9. What choice is the hypothetical person in the Original Position offered?

10. How do Intuitionists justify their innate knowledges?

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