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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. Rand believes that because of altruism, what is the only reason people help others?
(a) Public Recognition.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Obligation.
(d) Fame.

2. According to Rand, compromise is similar to what?
(a) Common ground.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Victory.
(d) Defeat.

3. How does Western Society deem moral judgment?
(a) Awful.
(b) Good.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Evil.

4. Rand states in her essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society," that her proposal for government financing is ________ in practice.
(a) Irrational.
(b) Rational.
(c) Not difficult.
(d) Not easy.

5. In Rand's essay, "Collectivized Ethics," Rand mentions which system of government in relation to collectivized ethics?
(a) Libertarianism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rand, what term is used to describe a method in which one refuses to base his or her interests on context?

2. In which year was the essay, "The Divine Right of Stagnation," written?

3. According to Rand, what does an act of good will require in the eyes of the objectivist?

4. 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?

5. According to Rand, what are the notions of altruist thought perpetuated by?

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