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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. Where does Dagny plan to start the first run of the John Galt Line?
(a) New York, NY
(b) Cheyenne, Wyoming
(c) Denver, Colorado
(d) Washington, D. C.

2. What show of support does Dagny get from employees of Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) They give a banquet in her honor.
(b) They line the route with guns to protect the train.
(c) They vote her in as President of Taggart Transcontinental.
(d) They all buy stock in the John Galt Line.

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

4. 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 coal miners all go on strike for higher wages.
(c) The bridge on the Galt Line is blown up.
(d) Danagger Coal cannot supply coal for the trains because its shipment goes to England.

5. When the Taggart board and the Washington influence peddlers meet, what is the irony of their meeting place?
(a) It gives complete control of Taggart Transcontinental to the government.
(b) It is held in the terminal beneath the statue of Nathaniel Taggart.
(c) It is in Dagny's office.
(d) It is unheated because of the coal shortages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mouch's new job after he resigns as Rearden's Washington lobbyist?

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

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

4. What does Rearden sell off after the bill banning people from owning multiple businesses is passed?

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

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