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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which monarch erected the palace of Versailles, as stated in Rand's essay "The Monument Builders?"
(a) Louis XIV.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) Napolean.
(d) Louis XVII.

2. Rand does not believe in public projects because the public project does not benefit whom?
(a) Some individuals.
(b) Rationally.
(c) Anyone.
(d) Every individual.

3. According to Ayn Rand, this is the only time physical force is warranted.
(a) Self defense.
(b) Government mandates.
(c) Crime of passion.
(d) Anger.

4. According to Ayn Rand, the major problem of socialism is the denial of what type of rights?
(a) Physical.
(b) Civil.
(c) Property.
(d) Human.

5. Finish the sentence: According to Ayn Rand, society must provide an organized protection against _________.
(a) Irrationality.
(b) Wrong-doers.
(c) Government.
(d) Force.

6. The notion that many people define individualism as the action of not conforming to the standard actions or ideas of the group is _________.
(a) Weak.
(b) False.
(c) Correct.
(d) Lacking.

7. According to Objectivist thought, what does the individual live for?
(a) Himself.
(b) The common good.
(c) Moralist principles.
(d) Society.

8. According to Rand, which country was the first to establish a system in which the society was subordinated to the individual rights?
(a) The United Kingdom.
(b) Ancient Egypt.
(c) The United States.
(d) Ancient Greece.

9. Finish the sentence: Humans should think and judge __________, valuing their own intellect above all else.
(a) Independently.
(b) Rationallty.
(c) Collectively.
(d) Morally.

10. Which major historical event ended just two decades before the essay, "The Monument Builders" was written?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Korean Conflict.
(d) The Cold War.

11. In which year was the essay, "The Divine Right of Stagnation," written?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1963.

12. What country did Rand live in throughout her adulthood?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) The United States.
(d) Canada.

13. As Rand states, how must a collectivist society be formed to operate morally?
(a) Freely.
(b) Morally.
(c) Correctly.
(d) Objectively.

14. Which term is defined as "a manifestation of helplessness, of self-loathing and of the desire for the unearned?"
(a) Self affliction.
(b) Power lust.
(c) Power planning.
(d) Self preservation.

15. Which American group does Rand attack in her essay, "Collectivized Ethics?"
(a) Conservatives.
(b) Republicans.
(c) 1960s Liberals.
(d) Activists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year was the essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society" published?

2. This stated that private facilities cannot refuse services to patrons based on race, creed, religion, sex, etc.

3. Which of the following is not considered a public project?

4. According to Rand, a nation has only the right to __________ of its individual citizens.

5. What political system punishes irrationality and rewards rational thought?

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