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

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

3. What is the result of the government's decision to divert coal to the People's Republic of England?
(a) Project X has to be put on hold.
(b) Produce from the West coast is held up for 3 days and everything spoils.
(c) Rearden Metal wins the contract to ship the steel.
(d) People have to wait for needed food to arrive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. On a radio program what does Dagny say that causes the program to go suddenly off the air?

4. How does the government plan to conserve copper and electricity?

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

(see the answer key)

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