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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 3 "Anti-Greed".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a reporter asks Dagny, "Who is John Galt?" what is her answer?
(a) An advertising gimmick.
(b) Who cares?
(c) I'll never tell.
(d) We are.

2. What does Rearden sell off after the bill banning people from owning multiple businesses is passed?
(a) Train engines and coal mines
(b) Copper mines and freight companies
(c) Iron mines and jewelry manufacturing
(d) Copper mines and coal mines

3. What prevents Taggart Transcontinental from meeting Rearden's deadline for delivering steel?
(a) Danagger refuses to supply coal if it will help Rearden.
(b) The bridge on the Galt Line is blown up.
(c) Danagger Coal cannot supply coal for the trains because its shipment goes to England.
(d) The coal miners all go on strike for higher wages.

4. On a radio program what does Dagny say that causes the program to go suddenly off the air?
(a) She says that Lillian was having an affair with Wesley Mouch.
(b) She tells how government blackmail over her affair with Hank caused him to sign over Rearden Metal.
(c) She says that Business Unification was responsible for blowing up Wyatt oil fields.
(d) She says that Hank's signature on the gift of Rearden Metal was forged.

5. What is the obvious symbolism of the Project X machine that is so destructive.
(a) The need for greater and greater weapons.
(b) The power of industrialists to destroy the world.
(c) The atomic bomb.
(d) The noise of a rock concert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is planning to build diesel engines for Taggart Transcontinental?

2. What sarcastic comment does Dagny make to James Taggart and Wesley Mouch?

3. How is Project X, a weapon of mass murder, define Rand's view of communism?

4. Hank realizes that their affair is over. What ended it?

5. How does Dagny let it be known that she is back after her plane crashed?

(see the answer key)

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