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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, what are the notions of altruist thought perpetuated by?
(a) Whim.
(b) Religion.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Morality and mysticism.

2. Some may claim that Ayn Rand's proposal for government financing is _______.
(a) Something to be considered.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Strong.
(d) Weak.

3. Who created "good" and evil" according to Rand?
(a) God.
(b) Various religions.
(c) Church Fathers.
(d) Humans.

4. 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.

5. According to Rand, a person who does not attempt to define what is right or wrong in a given situation, and acts as a mixture of the two is morally what?
(a) Gray.
(b) Right.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is "an institution that holds exclusive power to enforce certain rules for social conduct in a given geographical area?"

3. In which year was the essay, "The Monument Builders," published?

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

5. Which instinct does self-sacrifice directly contradict?

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