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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 the only caveat to a maximum liberty of the individual?
(a) That the individual does not make too much money.
(b) That the individual does not challenge the powers that be.
(c) That the individual does not impede anyone else's liberty.
(d) That the individual is god-fearing.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a Totalitarian state?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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