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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A It explains that if everyone kept the fruits of her talent to herself, it would be a true nightmare
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 author describes a hypothetical situation where everyone is forced to have the same skills and “more talent” is suppressed
D The Nightmare was about the Minimal Government
Question #2
A Because meritocracy encourages distribution of wealth equally, which is unfair and those with talents are not rewarded enough
B 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
C Because he believes that only free market society can provide competition and fair progress for the more talented
D Because Meritocracy encourages people to seek pleasure only and does not teach them responsibility
Question #3
A Sunni Islam is more pacifist, but Shia is more war oriented
B 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.
C Sunni Islam only believes in wars for self-defense, but Shias believe in wars for converting people
D There is no difference, both have the same ethics
Question #4
A Education to teach every human about the importance of sharing
B Necessary measure to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor
C Slavery, because forcefully taxing people amounts to forcefully putting them to work against their will
D Murder, because people who pay more taxes die young
Question #5
A Government should be actively involved in equal and just distribution of wealth
B Maximum Government will be a burden to society, because the taxpayers should have to pay their salaries
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 Republicanism
B Egalitarianism
C Libertarianism
D Socialism
Question #7
A Ben Laden
B Ben Laden
C Martin Luther King Jr.
D Malcolm X
Question #8
A To expand country’s possessions to provide better living for its citizens
B “Just war” should be fought not by weapons but by spiritual convictions
C To defeat the enemy at any cost
D To eventually restore peace
Question #9
A Climate Change and that Fossil Fuel emission has gone up and has created huge shortages in population growth worldwide
B The Capitalistic System of the World’s Economy and believes that all economies have stopped growing for the last several hundred years
C 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
D 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
Question #10
A It argues the point that all suffering is for a reason and guilty, evil people are punished justly
B It is about how Christianity, Buddhism and Judaism think is the right way of waging a war
C To inform the reader about how some religions deal with the ethics of unjust suffering and wars
D To inform the reader about what happened in Auschwitz and Hiroshima