Atlas Shrugged Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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Atlas Shrugged Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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

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

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

4. How is Project X, a weapon of mass murder, define Rand's view of communism?
(a) It shows that absolute power is good for the people in general.
(b) It defines the limits of a Cold War.
(c) It shows how powerful communism is and there is no way to defeat it.
(d) It takes away material things and destroys the world that capitalism has built.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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