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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "Collectivized 'Rights'", Ayn Rand (1963).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ayn Rand's last work of fiction?
(a) The Objectivist Ethics.
(b) The Fountainhead.
(c) Atlas Shrugged.
(d) The Virtue of Selfishness.

2. Which term is defined as "a manifestation of helplessness, of self-loathing and of the desire for the unearned?"
(a) Power planning.
(b) Self affliction.
(c) Self preservation.
(d) Power lust.

3. Who is Nathaniel Branden in the context of this collection?
(a) Rand's husband.
(b) Rand's favorite writer.
(c) The creator of Objectivism.
(d) Rand's associate.

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

5. In which year was the "Psychology of Pleasure" written?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1964.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rand, without these two things there can be no gray.

2. What does Rand claim is not a valid standard of value in her essay on "The 'Conflicts' of Men's Interests?"

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

4. Finish this argument as Rand presents it: X is ___________; therefore, his argument is false.

5. Historically, what did socialist economic planning come about as a reaction to?

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