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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7 "The Moratorium on Brains".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the real outcome after the court fines Rearden $5,000 and gives him a suspended sentence?
(a) Other industrialists will go out of business.
(b) Lillian's social connections are destroyed.
(c) Rearden will have to comply with the government rules.
(d) In effect, he has won against the government.

2. What is so unusual about the cigarette Dagny gets from Dr. Hugh Akston?
(a) It is made of unusual tobacco.
(b) It cannot be lit.
(c) It is marked with a gold dollar sign.
(d) It is rolled in colored paper.

3. What is the symbolism of the explosion in the Colorado tunnel?
(a) It represents the end of an era.
(b) It is what happens when logic and reason are abandoned for political expediency.
(c) It marks the end of the Unification Board.
(d) It represents the poor quality goods industrialists offer out of greed.

4. At home and in despair, what music is Dagny listening to when she puts down her head and cries?
(a) Halley's opera,
(b) Tchaikovski's Symphony Pathetique
(c) Cry Me a River
(d) Halley's Fourth Concerto

5. What is Ayn Rand's objection to majority rule as put forth by the National Alliance of Railroads?
(a) It puts decision making in the hands of uneducted people.
(b) It is not a true socialist idea.
(c) It does not go far enough to protect everyone.
(d) It can be used to stifle competition, capitalism, and individualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company not complete Dagny's order for switches and signals on the Colorado line?

2. At the Thanksgiving dinner, why does Lillian urge Hank not to fight the lawsuit?

3. Atlas is the Greek god who holds the world on his shoulders. In the novel, who is "Atlas"?

4. Why does Dagny take a leave of absence from her job as Vice President of Operations at Taggart Transcontinental?

5. When Hank Rearden learns that the legislature has passed the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, what does he learn from Mouch, his lobbyist in Washington?

(see the answer key)

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