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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country established a socialist system by vote?
(a) Soviet Russia.
(b) The United States.
(c) Nazi Germany.
(d) France.

2. Rand vies for a political system in which public projects are not ________ society.
(a) Created by.
(b) Forced upon.
(c) Completed within.
(d) Achieved by.

3. Which of the following is not considered a public project?
(a) Public parks.
(b) Public health care.
(c) Welfare.
(d) A local coffee shop.

4. According to Ayn Rand, on what basis must the individual give to public works?
(a) Lottery.
(b) Religious.
(c) Mandated.
(d) Voluntary.

5. The notion that many people define individualism as the action of not conforming to the standard actions or ideas of the group is _________.
(a) Correct.
(b) Lacking.
(c) False.
(d) Weak.

6. With which country's form of government does Rand largely agree?
(a) United Kingdom.
(b) China.
(c) Russia.
(d) United States.

7. In Rand's essay, "Man's Rights," she describes several societies that exhibited a collectivist system. Which society is not included?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) Ancient Greece.
(c) Roman Empire.
(d) Ottoman Empire.

8. What type of government financing does Ayn Rand propose in her essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society?"
(a) Independent financing.
(b) Dependent financing.
(c) Mandatory taxation.
(d) Voluntary taxation.

9. Rand states that the alleged goal of socialism was to end ________.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Revolt.
(c) Peace.
(d) Happiness.

10. Which country is said to have inspired Ayn Rand's objectivist theory, and caused her to reject all forms of collectivized government?
(a) The United States.
(b) Soviet Russia.
(c) Nazi Germany.
(d) China.

11. Which Act within the United States was Ayn Rand vehemently against?
(a) Human Rights Act.
(b) Sedition Act.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Civil Rights Act.

12. What is "an institution that holds exclusive power to enforce certain rules for social conduct in a given geographical area?"
(a) Code of conduct.
(b) Government.
(c) Society.
(d) Parliament.

13. Rand believes that the socialist theory as a whole is _______.
(a) Irrational.
(b) Rational.
(c) Morally correct.
(d) Honorably intended.

14. In which political system does the government own all societal goods and provide the people with what they need?
(a) Communist.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Capitalist.
(d) Libertarian.

15. Rand states in her essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society," that her proposal for government financing is ________ in practice.
(a) Not difficult.
(b) Not easy.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Rational.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year was the essay, "The Divine Right of Stagnation," written?

2. Denying an individual his right to property is synonymous with denying him his right to _______.

3. In which year was the Civil Rights Bill passed?

4. Rand does not believe in public projects because the public project does not benefit whom?

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

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