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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, "The Divine Right of Stagnation", Nathaniel Branden (1963).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two benefits one can gain from living a social existence?
(a) Knowledge and trade.
(b) Supply and demand.
(c) Knowledge and happiness.
(d) Happiness and trade.

2. According to Branden, which word is intellectually confused with "selfishness?"
(a) Confidence.
(b) Egoism.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Self amorous.

3. Historically, what did socialist economic planning come about as a reaction to?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Nazism.

4. 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.

5. What type of government financing does Ayn Rand propose in her essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society?"
(a) Voluntary taxation.
(b) Dependent financing.
(c) Mandatory taxation.
(d) Independent financing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does self-esteem provide a person with according to Branden?

2. Rand states that the alleged goal of socialism was to end ________.

3. To be selfish is not simply to act on the basis of a __________.

4. Which of the following is not in violation of human survival as stated by the objectivist principle?

5. According to the principles of selfishness, what would be the correct route for convincing an employer that you are the proper candidate for a job?

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