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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, For the New Intellectual.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rand describe socialism as a revolt against?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Freedom.

2. Rand suggests that a nation's bodyguards are which type of people?
(a) Intellectuals.
(b) The military.
(c) Government officials.
(d) Those who are physically strongest.

3. What does Rand believe capitalism wiped out?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Morality.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Hard work.

4. New intellectuals, says Rand, should not give into which of the following?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Despair.
(d) Happiness.

5. Freedom and philosophy first arose in which setting, according to Rand?
(a) Ancient Rome.
(b) Renaissance Europe.
(c) Ancient Greece.
(d) Soviet Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rand describes perception as which of the following?

2. What country does Rand believe is deluding itself?

3. In which period did capitalism arise?

4. Rand states that collectivism is dead in which country?

5. What does Rand describe as being man's only tool of knowledge?

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