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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, "The Monument Builders," Ayn Rand (1962).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not included in the events of an emergency according to Rand's essay on "The Ethics of Emergencies"?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Flood.
(c) Earthquake.
(d) Shipwreck.

2. Which country established a socialist system by vote?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) Nazi Germany.
(d) Soviet Russia.

3. Rand describes that socialism can be practiced totally or partially. Which country does she use as an example of a partial socialist government?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Nazi Germany.
(d) England.

4. What year did Ayn Rand write the essay, "The Cult of Moral Grayness?"
(a) 1963.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1962.

5. According to Rand, a person who does not attempt to define what is right or wrong in a given situation, and acts as a mixture of the two is morally what?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which monarch erected the palace of Versailles, as stated in Rand's essay "The Monument Builders?"

2. On what principle is a person who steals something they want acting on?

3. What was Ayn Rand's last work of fiction?

4. Which term is defined as "a manifestation of helplessness, of self-loathing and of the desire for the unearned?"

5. According to Nathaniel Branden, what word is intellectually confused with "self-sacrifice?"

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