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

2. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Militarism.
(c) Justice.
(d) Strength.

3. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?
(a) It ensures that there is an equal distribution of such.
(b) It ensures that some people get more duties than others.
(c) It enforces the law.
(d) It states who has the power and who doesn't.

4. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?
(a) Political.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Epistemology.
(d) Skeptical.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do Intuitionist' believe in?

4. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rawls prefer the Social Contract Theory?

2. What for the Intuitionist is learned?

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

4. What other name is generally applied to the Original Position?

5. Why is it important that we have a Just society?

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

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

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

9. What is the definition of the 'good' society in Rawls’ view?

10. Why could Contract Theory be called pessimistic?

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