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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year was Rand's essay, "Collectivized Ethics," published?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1973.

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

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

4. According to Rand, what is the only cure for racism?
(a) Altruism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Individualism.
(d) Communism.

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

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

7. 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) Weak.
(c) False.
(d) Lacking.

8. Finish the quotation: "Individual rights are the means of subordinating ________ to moral law."
(a) Government.
(b) Collectivism.
(c) The individual.
(d) Society.

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

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

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

12. What is the extreme example Rand uses to illustrate what can go wrong in a society that doesn't uphold the rights of the individual?
(a) The United States.
(b) Soviet Russia.
(c) Nazi Germany.
(d) China.

13. According to Rand, what is defined as conducting one's life according to the divinity of nonexistent beings?
(a) Altruism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Morality.
(d) Religion.

14. As Rand states, how must a collectivist society be formed to operate morally?
(a) Morally.
(b) Correctly.
(c) Objectively.
(d) Freely.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which political system does the government own all societal goods and provide the people with what they need?

3. Historically, what did socialist economic planning come about as a reaction to?

4. Which major historical event ended just two decades before the essay, "The Monument Builders" was written?

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

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