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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A The author describes a hypothetical situation where everyone is forced to have the same skills and “more talent” is suppressed
B It talks about someone who saw a dream whereby society was ruled only by the most talented and the less talented were slaves
C The Nightmare was about the Minimal Government
D It explains that if everyone kept the fruits of her talent to herself, it would be a true nightmare
Question #2
A Because Meritocracy encourages people to seek pleasure only and does not teach them responsibility
B Because meritocracy encourages distribution of wealth equally, which is unfair and those with talents are not rewarded enough
C Because he believes that only free market society can provide competition and fair progress for the more talented
D Because he believes that even free market economy is unjust, because the starting point of competition is still unfair, because the competitors had unequal opportunities from the beginning
Question #3
A Sunnis believe in wars for reasons other than self-defense, but Shias mostly adhere to self-defense as the main reason for a just war.
B Sunni Islam only believes in wars for self-defense, but Shias believe in wars for converting people
C Sunni Islam is more pacifist, but Shia is more war oriented
D There is no difference, both have the same ethics
Question #4
A Slavery, because forcefully taxing people amounts to forcefully putting them to work against their will
B Education to teach every human about the importance of sharing
C Necessary measure to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor
D Murder, because people who pay more taxes die young
Question #5
A Maximum Government will be a burden to society, because the taxpayers should have to pay their salaries
B Government should be actively involved in equal and just distribution of wealth
C It is better for the overall economy
D Human Freedom is the most important right and government cannot force people to share their wealth involuntarily
Question #6
A Libertarianism
B Socialism
C Egalitarianism
D Republicanism
Question #7
A Martin Luther King Jr.
B Ben Laden
C Malcolm X
D Ben Laden
Question #8
A To defeat the enemy at any cost
B “Just war” should be fought not by weapons but by spiritual convictions
C To expand country’s possessions to provide better living for its citizens
D To eventually restore peace
Question #9
A The fact that impoverished people tend to have many children and the only answer is to force them to use birth control, which would help economies grow having fewer mouths to feed
B The Capitalistic System of the World’s Economy and believes that all economies have stopped growing for the last several hundred years
C Climate Change and that Fossil Fuel emission has gone up and has created huge shortages in population growth worldwide
D The fact that as economies expand worldwide, they tend to overly consume biological resources and the world’s overpopulation may create even greater problems impoverishing billions of people in the future
Question #10
A To inform the reader about how some religions deal with the ethics of unjust suffering and wars
B It argues the point that all suffering is for a reason and guilty, evil people are punished justly
C To inform the reader about what happened in Auschwitz and Hiroshima
D It is about how Christianity, Buddhism and Judaism think is the right way of waging a war