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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 think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?
(a) Rights.
(b) Military power.
(c) One world government.
(d) Good trade agreements.

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

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

4. Where does the word and idea 'Democracy' come from?
(a) Ancient India.
(b) The Ancient Athenians of Greece.
(c) Ancient Egypt.
(d) Ancient Rome.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What year was Adam Smith born?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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