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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Nazi Germany.
(b) Soviet Russia.
(c) The United States.
(d) China.

4. What is "the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage?"
(a) Altruism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Misogyny.

5. The principle of collectivized ethics supposes that one must live for the benefit of what?
(a) Individual.
(b) State.
(c) Collective whole.
(d) Family.

6. This stated that private facilities cannot refuse services to patrons based on race, creed, religion, sex, etc.
(a) Prohibition.
(b) The Civil Rights Bill.
(c) The Sedition Act.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

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

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

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

10. In which year was Branden's essay, "Counterfeit Individualism" written?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1964.

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

12. Which country's monuments does Rand state have always been quite modest?
(a) Germany.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Russia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Rand vies for a political system in which public projects are not ________ society.

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