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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. Which of the following is included in the four considerations of man's view of rationality that Rand describes?
(a) Plausibility.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Effort.
(d) Reality.

2. In the act of conceding one's own reason in favor of another's, one commits an act of ______________.
(a) Self destruction.
(b) Morality.
(c) Irrationality.
(d) Compromise.

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) Happiness, sadness.
(b) Health, illness.
(c) Life, death.
(d) Morality, mysticism.

4. According to Branden, what must human beings have in order to have pleasure?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Self esteem.
(c) A sense of purpose.
(d) Enlightenment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which publication did "The Virtue of Selfishness" first appear?

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

3. Finish the statement. "A" is _________.

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

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

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