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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. How did the Sternes say they tried to run Twentieth Century Motors?
(a) Imposing great penalties on those who made mistakes.
(b) By paying the best salaries in the industry.
(c) Never criticizing anyone for a mistake or cost overrun.
(d) From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

2. What promise does Dagny make before she returns to the outside world?
(a) She will bring back Hank when she returns.
(b) She will return within one month.
(c) She will destroy the railroad before she returns.
(d) She will not reveal anything about it or try to find it again.

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

4. What, according to Rand, is worse than taking someone's life?
(a) Taking someone's life's work.
(b) Refusing to help the poor.
(c) Having an affair with a married person.
(d) Working only for the joy of creation and invention.

5. What sarcastic comment does Dagny make to James Taggart and Wesley Mouch?
(a) Which one of you is planning to rob a bank?
(b) Got what you've been asking for, all these years, gentlemen?
(c) You tell me how to run a train on bad rails.
(d) What's the point in running a business if there is no profit?

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Dagny wants to build a narrow gauge railroad in the valley and then changes her mind. Why?

4. What does Danneskjtzld leave behind when he disappears into the darkness?

5. How does Hank protect Danneskjtzld when the police arrive?

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