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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Rand's essay, "Man's Rights," she describes a right as the freedom of _______.
(a) Power.
(b) Life.
(c) Action.
(d) Belief.

4. Which form of government imposes laws of force and denies its citizens natural rights?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Republic.
(c) Free nation.
(d) Dictatorship.

5. 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 States.
(b) The United Kingdom.
(c) Ancient Egypt.
(d) Ancient Greece.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Finish the sentence: According to Ayn Rand, society must provide an organized protection against _________.
(a) Wrong-doers.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Government.
(d) Force.

14. Rand does not believe in public projects because the public project does not benefit whom?
(a) Anyone.
(b) Every individual.
(c) Rationally.
(d) Some individuals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Rand states, how must a collectivist society be formed to operate morally?

2. Which country is said to have inspired Ayn Rand's objectivist theory, and caused her to reject all forms of collectivized government?

3. Finish the sentence: Humans should think and judge __________, valuing their own intellect above all else.

4. In which year was the essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society" published?

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

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