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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 news was in the letter the doorman had held for Dagny for a week?
(a) Quentin Daniels had disappeared.
(b) Quentin Daniels was moving to Colorado.
(c) Quentin Daniels had finally built a working model of her motor.
(d) Quentin Daniels could no longer work on the motor.

2. What is Dagny's reply to Cherryl's comment that she is "the woman in the Taggart family"?
(a) Don't tell my dress maker.
(b) You're welcome to the job.
(c) That's quiet all right. I'm the man.
(d) What am I? Chopped liver?

3. How does James Taggart demonstrate his disdain for money?
(a) He buys Cherryl an improbably large diamond.
(b) He burns his money in the fireplace.
(c) He gives a hundred dollar bill to a beggar.
(d) He gives his money to Lillian.

4. What does Dagny's insistence on working as housemaid for John Galt say about her.
(a) It describes her work ethic.
(b) It is a ploy to keep them from sending her away.
(c) It indicates that she wants to escape the valley.
(d) It shows that she has little self-esteem.

5. Who does Dagny discover is working for her as a common laborer?
(a) Cuffy Meigs
(b) John Galt
(c) Ragnar Danneskjtzld
(d) Eddie Willers

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is James Taggart marrying Cherryl Brooks, the dime store clerk?

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

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

4. Dr. Potter of the State Science Institute threatens Rearden who pretends not to understand his threats. Why?

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

(see the answer key)

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