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

2. What is necessary for the existence of self-esteem according to Branden?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Pride.
(c) Avarice.
(d) Confidence.

3. Rand clarifies her point about compromise when she asks the question about the compromise ______ and _______ along with the question of reason versus irrationality.
(a) Morality, mysticism.
(b) Happiness, sadness.
(c) Life, death.
(d) Health, illness.

4. According to Ayn Rand, one must pass moral judgment in order to live what kind of life?
(a) Rational.
(b) Evil.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Good.

5. Some may claim that Ayn Rand's proposal for government financing is _______.
(a) Weak.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Strong.
(d) Something to be considered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is included in the four considerations of man's view of rationality that Rand describes?

2. Although Rand does not support altruistic belief, she does not ______against it.

3. The function of pleasure is to give a man his own sense of what?

4. According to Rand, what is defined as conducting one's life according to the divinity of nonexistent beings?

5. What is the extreme example Rand uses to illustrate what can go wrong in a society that doesn't uphold the rights of the individual?

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