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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rawls want his theory of justice to be?
(a) The dominant political view.
(b) Something to destroy the theories of Utilitarianism.
(c) A viable alternative to other theories.
(d) Something to remember.

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

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

5. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?
(a) Because they are taught what to believe.
(b) Because of an innate knowledge of fairness.
(c) Because the monarch told them so.
(d) Because God told them so.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Adam Smith born?

2. Why is the argument called the Original Position?

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

4. Where does the word and idea 'Democracy' come from?

5. What is the greatest criticism levelled against Utilitarianism?

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