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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. 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 tells how government blackmail over her affair with Hank caused him to sign over Rearden Metal.
(c) She says that Lillian was having an affair with Wesley Mouch.
(d) She says that Business Unification was responsible for blowing up Wyatt oil fields.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dagny plan to start the first run of the John Galt Line?

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

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

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

5. What is the comparison Francisco makes between John Galt and Prometheus?

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