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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, "Doesn't Life Require Compromise?" Ayn Rand (1962).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ayn Rand defines value as something that a person believes is necessary to do what?
(a) Keep and follow.
(b) Obtain and keep.
(c) Learn and keep.
(d) Obtain and obey.

2. At the conclusion of Rand's essay on the Objectivist ethics, what does she state is the standard value for the Objectivist?
(a) The creation of offspring.
(b) The development of the world.
(c) Man's life.
(d) The society.

3. In what year did Rand write the essay, "The 'Conflicts' of Men's Interests?"
(a) 1961.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1972.

4. What does Rand believe the nature of the human mind to be?
(a) Simple.
(b) Complex.
(c) A mystery.
(d) Driven by basic needs.

5. How does Rand define "society" in a basic sense?
(a) A group governed by a government.
(b) The downfall of the individual.
(c) A collection of individuals.
(d) The most efficient way of governing the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "Atlas Shrugged" published?

2. According to Branden, what do values in the context of ethics guide?

3. What does Rand claim about the existence of compromise?

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

5. Rand clarifies her point about compromise when she asks the question about the compromise ______ and _______ along with the question of reason versus irrationality.

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