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

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

3. How does Dagny let it be known that she is back after her plane crashed?
(a) She takes out an ad in the New York papers.
(b) She goes on the radio to announce that she is all right.
(c) She notifies the press in Nebraska.
(d) She fakes a plane crash in Nebraska.

4. Who is planning to build diesel engines for Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) Dwight Sanders
(b) Eddie Willers
(c) Henry Rearden
(d) Francisco d'Anconia

5. How does the government plan to conserve copper and electricity?
(a) Melting down pennies and ordering blackouts.
(b) Using zinc and wind power.
(c) Recalling all the copper shipped before d'Anconia ships were sunk.
(d) Limiting elevators from going higher than the 25th floor of a building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of the government's decision to divert coal to the People's Republic of England?

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

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

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

5. When a reporter asks Dagny, "Who is John Galt?" what is her answer?

(see the answer key)

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