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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 does Rawls claim about the freedom of assembly?
(a) That it forms the key to a strong military.
(b) That it forms the key to a strong monarchy.
(c) That it forms the key to a strong police force.
(d) That it forms the key to a strong democracy

2. What did wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously say about Democracy?
(a) "Far from perfect."
(b) "The ignoble chasing the inedible."
(c) "Far from perfect, but the best system on the table."
(d) "The sublimest virtue."

3. 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 is the only important virtue.
(c) That it may be maximized.
(d) That it may be ignored.

4. What is a Totalitarian state?
(a) A type of economic system.
(b) The opposite of a democracy.
(c) A type of religious state.
(d) A type of secular state.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Rawls claim is necessary for fair elections?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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