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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, "The Cult of Moral Grayness", Ayn Rand (1964).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not included in Branden's list of avenues where people find pleasure?
(a) Art.
(b) Sex.
(c) Balance.
(d) Recreation.

2. In Rand's essay, "How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?" Rand states that people often dismiss evil around them out of what?
(a) Irrationality.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Fear.

3. What does Rand claim that Objectivists ethics are in the essay on Objectivist ethics?
(a) Only morality.
(b) True morality.
(c) Relgious elixir.
(d) Basic morality.

4. Complete the quote: "_____ is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause."
(a) Need.
(b) Moral.
(c) Whim.
(d) Want.

5. Rand defends her points by stating her belief that the mainstream practice of ethics goes against the reality of _________.
(a) Objectivism.
(b) Ecosystems.
(c) Human existence.
(d) Human peace and experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept is mentioned once in the book that according to Rand, largely influences collectivist, Western thought?

2. Ayn Rand defines value as something that a person believes is necessary to do what?

3. Which law does Rand propose should be used to determine man's interests?

4. What word does Rand state that philosophers substitute for God?

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

(see the answer key)

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