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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 5 "Their Brothers' Keepers".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game does Francisco play with the Mexican government and the American stockholders in the San Sebastian Mines?
(a) He knows the mines are worthless and wants to watch them go down with their own greed.
(b) He plays poker with the Mexican President in a winner-take-all game.
(c) He plays a game of marbles on the hotel room floor.
(d) He plays charades but no one can guess his subject.

2. When Dagny is held up by the stopped train, how does she continue her way to Colorado?
(a) She calls Hank to come take her the rest of the way.
(b) She hitchhikes to Colorado.
(c) She buys a plane and flies there.
(d) She buys a car and drives the rest of the way.

3. Why are there only half enough freight cars to ship the Minnesota wheat crop to the East coast?
(a) Meigs has sent the other 7,000 cars to pick up swamp soybeans in Louisiana.
(b) All the other cars have fallen apart.
(c) Many of the freight cars have been converted into passenger cars.
(d) The wheat crop is not really important because there is enough wheat in the East already.

4. What does Danneskjtzld leave behind when he disappears into the darkness?
(a) His calling card
(b) The number to a bank account
(c) A bar of gold
(d) Another gun for Hank to carry

5. What is the surprising question Francisco poses to Dagny at the wedding reception?
(a) Did you get permission to use John Galt's name on your new railroad line?
(b) Don't you want to know now: Who is John Galt?
(c) Have you met John Galt?
(d) Don't you want to tell Lillian about your affair with her husband?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the symbolism of Francisco lying on the floor with his arms spread out to his sides?

2. What is "the chain"?

3. What happens to all the South American d'Anconia Copper Mines immediately after they are nationalized by the various governments?

4. When Dagny demands that Francisco tell her why Ellis Wyatt will be wiped out in Colorado, why does he refuse to tell her?

5. Rand uses the failure of Twentieth Century Motors to make what point about socialism?

(see the answer key)

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