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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. How does Rand let the reader know that there is a connection between Francisco and Danneskjtzld?
(a) Francisco offers to introduce Rearden to Danneskjtzld.
(b) Francisco does not react when Rearden mentions Danneskjtzld's name.
(c) Francisco's horror when he learns that Rearden ordered d'Anconia copper.
(d) Francisco tells Rearden that Danneskjtzld is coming to the city.

2. What news does James Taggart receive that Dagny had predicted?
(a) The Mexican Government has nationalized the San Sebastian Mine and the Taggart railroad line
(b) The Mexican line is out of coal and must burn wood to run the trains.
(c) The US government is nationalizing all industry.
(d) Rearden refusus to supply metal for any railroad rails.

3. What is the problem Rearden sees in any government that professes to run by committee for the "public good."
(a) The committees are selected by popular vote.
(b) It favors industrialists who create jobs for the public.
(c) The moral purity of a committee cannot know what the public good is.
(d) There is no morality of right and wrong involved.

4. Why will Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company not complete Dagny's order for switches and signals on the Colorado line?
(a) They cannot get the steel they need.
(b) Too many people are opposed to Rearden metal.
(c) They believe she cannot pay for the items.
(d) They made a deal with Jim Taggart not to supply the equipment.

5. What is the lie that James Taggart tells the Board of Taggert Railroad?
(a) That he would pay for all the company losses out of his own pocket.
(b) That the whole thing was Dagny's fault since she wanted the Mexican line.
(c) That he foresaw this action, cut the schedule and removed the good equipment from that line.
(d) That Francisco d'Anconia had sold his copper mines to Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so unusual about the cigarette Dagny gets from Dr. Hugh Akston?

2. What does Hank Rearden's mother suggest is Phillip's qualification to work for Rearden Metal?

3. What did the National Alliance of Railroads pass to eliminate competition?

4. What is the last thing passengers see on Kip Chalmers' train as they enter the tunnel?

5. What is Dagny's reaction to Eugene Lawson's claim that his motives were pure at Twentieth Century Motors because he never made a profit?

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