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

2. What is the symbolism of the gold $ sign on the cigarettes?
(a) It is a symbol of how expensive cigarettes become under communism.
(b) It is reall a capital U overlaid with a capital S in gold to remind users of US capitalism.
(c) It is a secret mark that designates a revolutionary war to come.
(d) It predicts the high cost of cigarettes in the future.

3. What is so unusual about the cigarette Dagny gets from Dr. Hugh Akston?
(a) It cannot be lit.
(b) It is rolled in colored paper.
(c) It is marked with a gold dollar sign.
(d) It is made of unusual tobacco.

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

5. Quentin Daniels is hired to reconstruct the revolutionary motor. What is Quentin's greatest desire.
(a) To improve the motor.
(b) To prove the the motor will not work.
(c) To create a motor from his own concept.
(d) To meet the man who conceived of the idea of the motor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the organization, Friends of Global Progress, view Rearden Steel?

2. Why does Cherryl go to visit Dagny?

3. What does Hank Rearden finally do with his family?

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

5. What is the comparison Francisco makes between John Galt and Prometheus?

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