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1) What does Friedman identify as the sole responsibility of businesses?

a. Treating its workers well

b. Contributing to the common good

c. Returning a profit to the owners

d. Providing customers with the best possible value

2) What does Sandel mean by saying that a market society faces a problem of unjust coercion?

a. Market societies force people to sell everything whether or not they consent to put them for sale, so that they can have more money

b. Market societies force people to buy products they do not wish to maintain a good public image

c. Many goods that are bought and sold in a market economy are transformed and degraded by being put for sale

d. Having more categories of goods in the market makes money matter more, so the costs of not having money rise to force people by necessity of circumstances

3) According to Sandel, the corruption particular to market societies is fundamentally which of the following?

a. The way that products become lower quality, spiraling downward because of price competition and planned obsolescence

b. The way that those with wealth are able to force the poor to serve them, conflicting with democratic ideals of freedom

c. The way that humans beings in market societies become less morally good, becoming greedy and obsessed with money or social status

d. The way that some goods change when they are bought or sold, undermining what makes them valuable

4) Sandel's arguments about corruption and coercion are directed against which of the following?

a. Liberals, primarily libertarians, who believe freedom consists in voluntary exchanges typical of markets

b. Republicans, who believe that freedom is possible only when others cannot arbitrarily interfere with out lives typical of decisions made in markets

c. Democrats, who believe that the rules governing markets should be determined by the will of the majority

d. Conservatives, who believe that traditional values should not be changed by the commercialism of the market

5) Which of the following best characterizes how Rawls views the ideal conditions for determining principles of justice?

a. The deliberation of philosophers who have studied differing conceptions of justice, and who can best determine what is fair for all

b. The deliberation of social scientists who have studied different societies and can determine which is fairest by looking at average levels of happiness

c. The actual deliberation of individuals who understand their place in society and could determine what would be most fair for them

d. The hypothetical deliberation of individuals about what principles would be fair, given that those individuals are ignorant of their place in society (e.g. rich/poor, religious, etc)