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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 Rawls claim is necessary for fair elections?
(a) So long as the majority get a chance to vote.
(b) One general election every generation.
(c) Fair, free and often elections.
(d) As long as the wealthy get a chance to make a vote.

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

3. What does Rawls claim about the freedom of assembly?
(a) That it forms the key to a strong police force.
(b) That it forms the key to a strong democracy
(c) That it forms the key to a strong monarchy.
(d) That it forms the key to a strong military.

4. What is a Totalitarian state?
(a) The opposite of a democracy.
(b) A type of secular state.
(c) A type of religious state.
(d) A type of economic system.

5. What year was Adam Smith born?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1623.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the word and idea 'Democracy' come from?

2. What does Rawls think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?

3. How many principles of justice does the Original Position later result in?

4. What is assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?

5. What did wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously say about Democracy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Rawls admit that inequalities can be endured in his system?

2. What form must the protection of disadvantaged people come from?

3. Who decides the limits of human liberty, according to the Two Principles of Justice?

4. What is the second principle that the Original Position ensures?

5. In what way does the Original Position ensure the two principles of justice?

6. What has to be used to ensure the two principles of justice?

7. Why are the limits of human freedom according to the Two Principles of Justice essentially a form of social contract?

8. What is the first principle that the Original Position ensures?

9. What are the limits of human freedom, according to the Two Principles of Justice?

10. How does the Original Position not account for second- or later generations?

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