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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 is necessary for fair elections?
(a) So long as the majority get a chance to vote.
(b) As long as the wealthy get a chance to make a vote.
(c) Fair, free and often elections.
(d) One general election every generation.

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

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

4. What is the only caveat to a maximum liberty of the individual?
(a) That the individual does not challenge the powers that be.
(b) That the individual does not make too much money.
(c) That the individual is god-fearing.
(d) That the individual does not impede anyone else's liberty.

5. Where does the word and idea 'Democracy' come from?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) The Ancient Athenians of Greece.
(c) Ancient India.
(d) Ancient Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously say about Democracy?

2. What year was Adam Smith born?

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

4. What is assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?

5. What does Rawls admit might happen within his just society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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