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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, without these two things there can be no gray.
(a) Black and white.
(b) Gray and white.
(c) Reason and self-interest.
(d) Reason and rationality.

2. Which German philosopher does Rand oppose within her own philosophical theory?
(a) Kafka.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Nietzche.

3. According to Rand, what do humans need if they are to live in a society?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Family.
(c) Total Freedom.
(d) Government.

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

5. Branden states in his essay, "The Psychology of Pleasure" that pleasure is not a _________, but a psychological need.
(a) Luxury.
(b) Whim.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Right.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rand, a nation has only the right to __________ of its individual citizens.

2. What type of need does "mental health" fall under?

3. According to Rand, what are ideas of mysticism and morality based upon?

4. In which year was the essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society" published?

5. In Rand's essay, "Man's Rights," she describes a right as the freedom of _______.

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