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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 the essay, "Government Financing in a Free Society" published?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1963.

2. What are the two benefits one can gain from living a social existence?
(a) Knowledge and happiness.
(b) Happiness and trade.
(c) Knowledge and trade.
(d) Supply and demand.

3. Which of the following is not in violation of human survival as stated by the objectivist principle?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Altruism.
(d) Religion.

4. Finish the sentence: Humans should think and judge __________, valuing their own intellect above all else.
(a) Collectively.
(b) Independently.
(c) Morally.
(d) Rationallty.

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

6. In which political system does the government own all societal goods and provide the people with what they need?
(a) Libertarian.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Communist.
(d) Capitalist.

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Dependent financing.
(d) Independent financing.

12. In which year was the Civil Rights Bill passed?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1965.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which term is defined as "a manifestation of helplessness, of self-loathing and of the desire for the unearned?"

3. Rand states that the alleged goal of socialism was to end ________.

4. According to Rand, a nation has only the right to __________ of its individual citizens.

5. Which American group does Rand attack in her essay, "Collectivized Ethics?"

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