Atlas Shrugged Test | Final Test - Easy

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Atlas Shrugged Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hank know that their affair was over before Dagny told him.
(a) During the radio show she had only used past tense.
(b) John Galt came and told him.
(c) Francisco sent him a telegram.
(d) He heard something different in her voice on the radio.

2. What does Dagny's insistence on working as housemaid for John Galt say about her.
(a) It indicates that she wants to escape the valley.
(b) It is a ploy to keep them from sending her away.
(c) It shows that she has little self-esteem.
(d) It describes her work ethic.

3. What does Dagny now realize about Francisco?
(a) That he was the first industrialist to quit.
(b) That he is John Galt.
(c) That he never liked running the copper mines.
(d) That he lost his bets on industrialization.

4. How does John Galt mock the government men when the power goes out at the State Science Institute while he is still strapped to Project F?
(a) He starts telling bad jokes.
(b) He reminds them that he is still alive.
(c) He loosens his straps and stands up.
(d) He starts telling the technician how to repair the generator.

5. How does James Taggart retain his position as President of Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) His marriage to Cherryl which shows he is for the people.
(b) His firing of Dagny.
(c) He pays exhorbitant bribes.
(d) He joins the influence peddlers from Washington.

6. What happens to all the South American d'Anconia Copper Mines immediately after they are nationalized by the various governments?
(a) The mines all prove to be worthless and used up.
(b) The price of copper jumps to an all time high.
(c) The US government realizes it will now have to pay more for copper.
(d) The are blown up and the top management disappears.

7. What is the coincidence of Dagny stopping the conductor from throwing a vagrant off the train she is taking to see Quentin Daniels?
(a) He knew how to operate a train.
(b) The man, Jeff Allen, once worked at Twentieth Century Motors.
(c) He turned out to be John Galt.
(d) He could finish the work Quentin Daniels had started.

8. What happens to a radio broadcast planned for the Head of State?
(a) Dagny agrees to be a part of the broadcast.
(b) John Galt takes over the broadcast to tell the world what has happened to the disappeared thinkers and producers.
(c) John Galt jams their broadcast so that the air is completely dead.
(d) The radio broadcast explains why everything is happening for the good of the people.

9. What does the Head of State Thompson want from Galt?
(a) He wants Galt to leave thecountry and never return.
(b) He wants Galt to give the government his radio technology.
(c) He wants Galt to be his Vice-President.
(d) He wants Galt to tell him how to fix the economy.

10. Why are there only half enough freight cars to ship the Minnesota wheat crop to the East coast?
(a) Meigs has sent the other 7,000 cars to pick up swamp soybeans in Louisiana.
(b) The wheat crop is not really important because there is enough wheat in the East already.
(c) All the other cars have fallen apart.
(d) Many of the freight cars have been converted into passenger cars.

11. What is the music heard in the valley as the industrial "strikers" arrive?
(a) Tomorrow Is Another Day
(b) Look for the Silver Lining
(c) Beethoven's Ode to Joy
(d) Halley's Fifth Piano Concerto

12. How does Rand use the history of Twentieth Century Motors to define communism?
(a) When capitalism ceases to be, everyone is happier.
(b) Plants under government controll never fail.
(c) When everyone had everything in common, the plant flourished.
(d) When all motivation was taken away, no one wanted to work.

13. After Rearden is knocked unconscious and comes to, who does he discover were helping to fight off the siege?
(a) John Galt and Ragnar Danneskjtzld
(b) Phillip Rearden and Orren boyle
(c) Jim Taggart and Wesley Mouch
(d) Frank Adams and Francisco d'Anconia

14. What promise does Dagny make before she returns to the outside world?
(a) She will bring back Hank when she returns.
(b) She will return within one month.
(c) She will destroy the railroad before she returns.
(d) She will not reveal anything about it or try to find it again.

15. What is happening to trains everywhere in the nation?
(a) They stop running because of fear after the tunnel wreck.
(b) They are abandoned and the crews vanish.
(c) They run out of coal.
(d) They all derail.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hank protect Danneskjtzld when the police arrive?

2. When the east bound Comet stalls in the desert, how are the passengers taken away?

3. How does James Taggart demonstrate his disdain for money?

4. What is the obvious symbolism of the Project X machine that is so destructive.

5. What message on the city calendar marquee made Rearden laugh out loud?

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