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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. Who flies over the valley looking for Dagny but cannot see the community below?
(a) Jim Taggart
(b) Eddie Willers
(c) Hank Rearden
(d) Phillip Rearden

2. 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) The wheat crop is not really important because there is enough wheat in the East already.
(c) All the other cars have fallen apart.
(d) Many of the freight cars have been converted into passenger cars.

3. How does Rand make it clear that Eddie's mysterious cafeteria friend is the illusive John Galt?
(a) He never has to ask.
(b) Eddie comes right out and asks him.
(c) He admits it to Eddie but swears him to secrecy.
(d) The cigarette butts with the $ sign in the ashtray.

4. What caused Francisco's ancestor out of Spain to Argentina where he became wealthy as a copper miner?
(a) The Potato Famine.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The Spanish Revolution.
(d) The Spanish Inquisition.

5. Why does Dagny take a leave of absence from her job as Vice President of Operations at Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) To try and localte John Galt.
(b) To find Francisco and marry him.
(c) To get away to Europe for a vacation.
(d) To supervise and finish the John Galt Line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the handsome blond man Dagny meets on her first morning in the valley?

2. What is the coincidence of Dagny stopping the conductor from throwing a vagrant off the train she is taking to see Quentin Daniels?

3. When the Taggart board and the Washington influence peddlers meet, what is the irony of their meeting place?

4. Quentin Daniels is hired to reconstruct the revolutionary motor. What is Quentin's greatest desire.

5. How did the Sternes say they tried to run Twentieth Century Motors?

(see the answer key)

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