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1. Which one of the following is NOT part of the Hedonic Calculus?

A. capacity

B. duration

C. intensity

D. extent

2. It is the idea that the result/outcome is the determining moral value.
A. moralist idea
B. consequentialist idea
C. rationalist idea
D. hedonist idea

3. What is very important to Mill?*
A. good

B. reason
C. benefit
D. happiness

4. Who invented Hedonic Calculus?
A. Bentham
B. Hutcheson
C. Hume
D. Mill

5. Mill said, “It is better to be ---- dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”.
A. human

B. a pig
C. Socrates
D. none of these

6. According to Bentham, It is the property of any object that produces benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, happiness, or prevents mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness. [one word answer, the first letter must be capitalized]

7. Mill said that higher pleasures is ________ pleasure
A. quality
B. reason
C. happiness
D. quantity

8. The utilitarian approach to political obligation does not separate individuals from society. It combines one's own happiness with the happiness of others. This is known as? _______________________________. [ two-word answer, the first letter of each word must be capitalized.]

9. What type of theory is Utilitarianism?
A. theological
B. empirical
C. teleological
D. spiritual

10. It is a group of people who have banded together to promote and maintain happiness; however, it does so through the use of the law. [ one word answer, first letter must be capitalized]

11. Utilitarianism considers the motive/intention in the assessment of the act.
A. True
B. False

12. The higher form of pleasure is found in the realm of the senses according to Mill.
A. True
B. False

13. Mill was the one who developed the Hedonic Calculus.
A. True
B. False

14. Utilitarianism advocates the maximization of pleasure over pain.
A. True
B. False

15. Utilitarianism pursues the act that gives more happiness to the minority.
A. True
B. False

16. It means the longer the pleasure the better.
A. fecundity

B. duration
C. purity
D. extent

17. It is being disregarded by the Utilitarianism
A. the morality of the act itself
B. the motive of the act
C. the agent of the act
D. the consequence of the act

18. What does ‘propinquity’ mean?
A. how closer or more often is the pleasure
B. how long the pleasure will last
C. how much the pleasure
D. how certain is the pleasure
 
1. D. extent
2. B. consequentialist idea
3. D. happiness
4. A. Bentham
5. B. a pig
6. Utility
7. A. quality
8. Social Utilitarianism
9. C. teleological
10. Society
11. False
12. False
13. B. False
14. A. True
15. A. True
16. B. duration
17. B. the motive of the act
18. A. how closer or more often is the pleasure
 
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