Jeremy Bentham Multiple Choice Questions
1. When is Jeremy Bentham’s birthday?
A. 15-10-1748
B. 30-10-1748
C. 30-05-1748
D. 15-02-1748
Answer: D. 15-02-1748
2. When did Jeremy Bentham die?
A. 01-01-1832
B. 06-06-1832
C. 22-05-1832
D. 23-09-1832
Answer: B. 06-06-1832
3. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo-American ____
A. John Rawls
B. Jurisprudence
C. Political Philosophy
D. Immanuel Kant
Answer: B. Jurisprudence
4. _________ a British politician who had been Bentham’s trusted friend, was appointed his literary executor and charged with the task of preparing a collected edition of his works.
A. John Pope Hennessy
B. John Bowring
C. Arthur Kennedy
D. Immanuel Kant
Answer: B. John Bowring
5. Which writer was a major proponent of the theory of utilitarianism?
A. Jeremy Bentham
B. Immanuel Kant
C. Immanuel Kant
D. John Rawls
Answer: A. Jeremy Bentham
6. Mill Objected to Jeremy Bentham’s version of utilitarianism because:
A. It was too emotional.
B. It has an impoverished definition of happiness
C. Its only end was a pleasure
D. All of the above
Answer: B. It has an impoverished definition of happiness
7. What region does Jeremy Bentham belong to?
A. Pays de la Loire
B. Bourgogne
C. Western Philosophers
D. Poitou-Charentes
Answer: C. Western Philosophers
8. How is Jeremy Bentham described?
A. English Jurist philosopher and legal and social reformer
B. Australian politician
C. Russian-American novelist lep1doptenst, professor
D. German pianist, composer, and conductor
Answer: A. English Jurist philosopher and legal and social reformer
9. He went to __________ in 1760, at 12 years of age, his father send him to The Queen’s College, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor’s degree in 1763 and his Master’s degree in 1766.
A. France
B. Westminster School
C. Germany
D. USA
Answer: B. Westminster School
10. Where was Jeremy Bentham born?
A. Gibraltar
B. Moscow
C. Riga
D. London
Answer: D. London
11. Which of the following claims would Jeremy Bentham have argued in favor of?
A. One should strive to achieve high-quality pleasures as opposed to low-quality pleasures whenever possible
B. There is no relevant difference between high and low-quality pleasures
C. One should strive always for low-quality pleasure since they are easier to achieve than high-quality pleasures
D. Though objectively superior, most common people, can’t hope to experience h1gh quality pleasures and so, should be satisfied with low-quality pleasures
Answer: B. There is no relevant difference between high and low-quality pleasures
12. Which of the following offers the best definition of fecundity, according to Jeremy Bentham’s hedonic calculus?
A. A fecund pleasure is a low-quality pleasure
B. A fecund pleasure is one that is likely to lead to similar pleasures in the future
C. A fecund pleasure is one concerned with physical sensations as opposed to intellectual stimulation
D. A fecund pleasure to one concerned with intellectual stimulation as opposed to physical sensations
Answer: B. A fecund pleasure is one that is likely to lead to similar pleasures in the future
13. Which of the following is not one of the categories in Bentham’s hedonic calculus?
A. Duration
B. Quality
C. Propinquity
D. Intensity
Answer: D. Intensity
14. Which of the following best characterizes J. S. Mill’s main complaint about Jeremy Bentham’s version of utilitarianism?
A. It only considers the pleasures of the individual and not of society
as a whole
B. It focuses more directly on the pleasures of men instead of women
C. It incorrectly considers happiness as the most important human goal
D. It does include an objective measure of the quality of pleasures
Answer: D. It does include an objective measure of the quality of pleasures
15. Which of the following philosophers would have agreed with this claim, “it is better to be a fool satisfied than Socrates dissatisfied?”
A. Plato
B. J.S. Mill
C. Immanuel Kant
D. Jeremy Bentham
Answer: D. Jeremy Bentham