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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 defines a good society, according to Rawls?
(a) A strong society.
(b) A wealthy society.
(c) A just society.
(d) A society that owns the most land.

2. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Eighteenth.
(d) Fifteenth.

3. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Strength.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Justice.

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

5. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?
(a) That different people’s situations mean different levels of happiness, contentment or suffering.
(b) Utilitarianism is never applied to the individual.
(c) It perceives persons only as voters.
(d) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

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

4. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

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

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