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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 3 "White Blackmail".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "the chain" represent to Henry Rearden?
(a) All his accomplishments after years of hard work.
(b) The only thing that will ever come of Rearden metal.
(c) The close link he has to his mother.
(d) The demands made on him by an ungrateful family.

2. What does Dagny object to about the San Sebastian Line?
(a) That is was not her idea.
(b) That it is going to help the communist government.
(c) That it is using Rearden steel rails.
(d) That the Mexican government will subsidise it.

3. What game does Francisco play with the Mexican government and the American stockholders in the San Sebastian Mines?
(a) He plays a game of marbles on the hotel room floor.
(b) He plays charades but no one can guess his subject.
(c) He knows the mines are worthless and wants to watch them go down with their own greed.
(d) He plays poker with the Mexican President in a winner-take-all game.

4. What is the purpose of the party Lillian plans to give in three months?
(a) Their social obligation to Dagny Taggart.
(b) A fund raiser for underprivileged children.
(c) Their wedding anniversary.
(d) A celebration of Rearden metal.

5. What is the lie that James Taggart tells the Board of Taggert Railroad?
(a) That he would pay for all the company losses out of his own pocket.
(b) That the whole thing was Dagny's fault since she wanted the Mexican line.
(c) That Francisco d'Anconia had sold his copper mines to Mexico.
(d) That he foresaw this action, cut the schedule and removed the good equipment from that line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dagny plan to start the first run of the John Galt Line?

2. What is the image Francisco d'Anconia has in the public eye?

3. What does Francisco d'Anconia say the socialists will use to replace "the aristocracy of money"?

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

5. Why does Dagny have to wait to get in to see Dannager when she goes to see him before his trial?

(see the answer key)

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