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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Social Contract.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(b) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(c) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(d) The belief that going to church is the highest form of pleasure.

2. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?
(a) Because he thought people were stupid.
(b) Because he thought that was the law of nature.
(c) Because he thought it would help the British Empire.
(d) Because he thought people were naturally brutish.

3. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?
(a) Power and glory.
(b) Money and wealth.
(c) Military might.
(d) Protection and security.

4. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?
(a) It states who has the power and who doesn't.
(b) It enforces the law.
(c) It ensures that some people get more duties than others.
(d) It ensures that there is an equal distribution of such.

5. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?
(a) Nature.
(b) God.
(c) The king.
(d) Their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?

2. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?

3. In what era was the theory of the Social Contract in favor?

4. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?

5. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?

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