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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Denying an individual his right to property is synonymous with denying him his right to _______.
(a) Comfort.
(b) Health.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Life.

2. What political system punishes irrationality and rewards rational thought?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

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

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

5. In which year was the essay, "The Divine Right of Stagnation," written?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1973.

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

7. What method does Rand give for implementing her government financing plan?
(a) Lottery basis.
(b) Random.
(c) Taxation of those who make more than a specified amount.
(d) None.

8. Rand states that the actually effect of socialism have been ________ the alleged goals.
(a) Opposite of.
(b) Different from.
(c) Synonymous with.
(d) Achieved with.

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

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

11. Which country does Rand seek refuge after fleeing Soviet Russia?
(a) Austria.
(b) Germany.
(c) The United States.
(d) England.

12. Historically, what did socialist economic planning come about as a reaction to?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Nazism.

13. What political system is characterized by private or corporate ownership of property?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalism.

14. Which monarch erected the palace of Versailles, as stated in Rand's essay "The Monument Builders?"
(a) Louis XIV.
(b) Napolean.
(c) Louis XVII.
(d) Charlemagne.

15. Rand believes that the enactment of socialism has contributed to the _______ and destruction of individuals.
(a) Conformity.
(b) Displacement.
(c) Torture.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rand, which country was the first to establish a system in which the society was subordinated to the individual rights?

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

3. According to Objectivist thought, what does the individual live for?

4. Which of the following is not in violation of human survival as stated by the objectivist principle?

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

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