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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 has Cherryl changed from the dime store clerk James married?
(a) Now she has risen in poise and social stature.
(b) She is no longer innocent but plays the part of a shop girl to fool society.
(c) She has even less of an idea about things than she did when they married.
(d) she has learned how to get more and more money out of James.

2. How does Hank protect Danneskjtzld when the police arrive?
(a) He tells the police that Danneskjtzld is his new bodyguard.
(b) He tells the police that Danneskjtzld is James Taggart in disguise.
(c) He pretends to shoot Danneskjtzld who plays dead.
(d) He pulls a gun on the police and chases them off.

3. What is the symbolism of the explosion in the Colorado tunnel?
(a) It is what happens when logic and reason are abandoned for political expediency.
(b) It represents the end of an era.
(c) It represents the poor quality goods industrialists offer out of greed.
(d) It marks the end of the Unification Board.

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

5. What is the meaning of "Wyatt's torch"?
(a) Wyatt's lighting after his electricity has been shut off.
(b) What is left after Wyatt's destruction of his oil fields.
(c) Wyatt's threat to destroy the economy by setting fire to Washington.
(d) Wyatt's new flashlight invention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Francisco play with the Mexican government and the American stockholders in the San Sebastian Mines?

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

3. What was John Galt's connection to Twentieth Century Motors?

4. What literary device does Rand use to show the end of Eddie's dream of one day marrying Dagny.

5. Who offers to help Dagny solve the problem of the rotting wooden bridge on her Colorado line?

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