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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country did Rand live in throughout her adulthood?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) The United States.
(d) Canada.

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

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

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

5. Rand calls government taxation laws an initiation of _________.
(a) Precedent.
(b) Choice.
(c) Finance.
(d) Force.

6. In Rand's essay, "The Monument Builders," what is the Moscow subway lined with?
(a) Gold.
(b) Granite.
(c) Pine.
(d) Marble.

7. According to Objectivist thought, what does the individual live for?
(a) Himself.
(b) The common good.
(c) Moralist principles.
(d) Society.

8. According to Rand, what is the only way that individuals' rights can be violated?
(a) Moral force.
(b) Physical force.
(c) Emotion persuasion.
(d) Government.

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

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

11. Rand describes that socialism can be practiced totally or partially. Which country does she use as an example of a partial socialist government?
(a) Russia.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Nazi Germany.

12. Which American group does Rand attack in her essay, "Collectivized Ethics?"
(a) Republicans.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) Activists.
(d) 1960s Liberals.

13. According to Rand, which country was the first to establish a system in which the society was subordinated to the individual rights?
(a) The United Kingdom.
(b) The United States.
(c) Ancient Egypt.
(d) Ancient Greece.

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

15. According to Ayn Rand, the major problem of socialism is the denial of what type of rights?
(a) Physical.
(b) Property.
(c) Civil.
(d) Human.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This stated that private facilities cannot refuse services to patrons based on race, creed, religion, sex, etc.

3. Rand believes that the socialist theory as a whole is _______.

4. What does Nathaniel Branden state is a concept of ethics and politics and simultaneously a concept of ethics and psychology?

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

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