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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Social Equality and Inequality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?
(a) The greatest good for the greatest number.
(b) The greatest good to the deserving.
(c) The greatest good to the wealthiest.
(d) Might makes right.

2. What is the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' argument?
(a) A metaphor for not being able to tell what kind of society one will later be in.
(b) A metaphor for a different type of belief.
(c) A metaphor to describe different types of citizens.
(d) A garment worn by politicians.

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

4. In what era was the theory of the Social Contract in favor?
(a) The Modern Era.
(b) The Dark Ages.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Enlightenment.

5. What is another name for the Original Position?
(a) The First Argument.
(b) The Brain in the Vat Argument.
(c) The Man in the Barrel Argument.
(d) The Waiting Room Argument.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?

3. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?

4. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?

5. Why is the argument called the Original Position?

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