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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, "The Divine Right of Stagnation", Nathaniel Branden (1963).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rand clarifies her point about compromise when she asks the question about the compromise ______ and _______ along with the question of reason versus irrationality.
(a) Morality, mysticism.
(b) Health, illness.
(c) Life, death.
(d) Happiness, sadness.

2. In Branden's essay on "The Psychology of Pleasure" he lists five avenues upon which ________ people find pleasure.
(a) Happy.
(b) Egotistical.
(c) Rational.
(d) Sufficient.

3. According to Rand, what type of principles have ruled Western Society for years?
(a) Egotistical.
(b) Christian.
(c) Judeo-Christian.
(d) Irrational.

4. From the objectivist perspective, what should the risk on committing an act of good will be proportionate to?
(a) A reward.
(b) Nothing, it should be a selfless act.
(c) One's happiness.
(d) Public recognition.

5. In which year was "Doesn't Life Require Compromise?" written?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1964.

Short Answer Questions

1. What basis are you acting on if you audition for a Broadway show, after wanting to become a singer, you are an extremely competent singer, and you have performed on stage before?

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

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

4. The function of pleasure is to give a man his own sense of what?

5. In which year was the essay, "The Divine Right of Stagnation," written?

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