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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 assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?
(a) That it may be ignored.
(b) That it is the only important virtue.
(c) That it may be minimized.
(d) That it may be maximized.

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

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

4. What did wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously say about Democracy?
(a) "The sublimest virtue."
(b) "Far from perfect."
(c) "The ignoble chasing the inedible."
(d) "Far from perfect, but the best system on the table."

5. How many principles of justice does the Original Position later result in?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second principle derived from the Original Position

2. What is the only caveat to a maximum liberty of the individual?

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

4. What does Rawls claim about the freedom of assembly?

5. What does Rawls claim is necessary for fair elections?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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