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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. Rand says that no man has the right to do which of the following?
(a) Initiate force against others.
(b) Consider using force when provoked.
(c) Provoke force.
(d) Create force.

2. The chief intellectual, according to Rand, is which type of person?
(a) Scientist.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Philosopher.

3. Rand states that the only tools of cognition are not which of the following?
(a) Logical thoughts.
(b) Negative feelings.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Emotions.

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

5. What kind of revolution is needed, according to Rand?
(a) Reasonable.
(b) Logical.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Moral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeremy Bentham champion?

2. What did Kant allegedly close philosophy to?

3. Which adjective does Rand use to describe America's culture?

4. Rand suggests that a nation's bodyguards are which type of people?

5. Rand suggests that a culture should be judged by which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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