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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. Why is James Taggart marrying Cherryl Brooks, the dime store clerk?
(a) To find real happiness
(b) To prove that communism will not work
(c) To show that he helps the underpriviliged
(d) To make an honest woman out of her because he got her pregnant

2. How does Rand show James Taggart's opportunism after the success of the John Galt Line?
(a) He decides to build a new line of his own.
(b) He takes credit for its success.
(c) He buys more stock in the John Galt Line.
(d) He gives Dagny credit for saving the company.

3. Why will Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company not complete Dagny's order for switches and signals on the Colorado line?
(a) They cannot get the steel they need.
(b) They made a deal with Jim Taggart not to supply the equipment.
(c) They believe she cannot pay for the items.
(d) Too many people are opposed to Rearden metal.

4. At home and in despair, what music is Dagny listening to when she puts down her head and cries?
(a) Cry Me a River
(b) Tchaikovski's Symphony Pathetique
(c) Halley's Fourth Concerto
(d) Halley's opera,

5. At the Thanksgiving dinner, why does Lillian urge Hank not to fight the lawsuit?
(a) She says they will assassinate him.
(b) She says he will damage her socially.
(c) She says he will win if he does not present a case.
(d) She says he cannot win.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dagny's reply to Cherryl's comment that she is "the woman in the Taggart family"?

2. What is the symbolism of the explosion in the Colorado tunnel?

3. What, according to Rand, is worse than taking someone's life?

4. What sarcastic comment does Dagny make to James Taggart and Wesley Mouch?

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

(see the answer key)

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