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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, "The Monument Builders," Ayn Rand (1962).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Rand use in "The Cult of Moral Grayness" to describe the common trend for people to believe there are not "blacks" and "whites," only grays?
(a) Conformative.
(b) Trendy.
(c) Fashionable.
(d) Disgusting.

2. According to Rand, without these two things there can be no gray.
(a) Reason and rationality.
(b) Gray and white.
(c) Reason and self-interest.
(d) Black and white.

3. From the altruist perspective, saving the life of a stranger is equivalent to saving the life of _________.
(a) Yourself.
(b) A loved one.
(c) All humans.
(d) God.

4. What was Ayn Rand's last work of fiction?
(a) Atlas Shrugged.
(b) The Fountainhead.
(c) The Virtue of Selfishness.
(d) The Objectivist Ethics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rand, what is the vessel in which the government seizes property and goods of the individual?

2. What is a person considered to be who attempts to find the morally good in a given situation but acts incorrectly by honest mistake?

3. In the act of conceding one's own reason in favor of another's, one commits an act of ______________.

4. In which publication did "The Virtue of Selfishness" first appear?

5. Which country's monuments does Rand state have always been quite modest?

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