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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 10 "The Sign of the Dollar".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rearden sell off after the bill banning people from owning multiple businesses is passed?
(a) Iron mines and jewelry manufacturing
(b) Copper mines and coal mines
(c) Copper mines and freight companies
(d) Train engines and coal mines

3. How does Dr. Ferris get Hank Rearden to sign over Rearden Metal to the government?
(a) By holding Lillian hostage.
(b) By threatening to expose his affair with Dagny.
(c) By promising him that he can continue to run the company.
(d) By convincing him it is the right thing to do.

4. What is the "Fifth Concerto"?
(a) An undiscovered work my Mozart.
(b) A composition by Richard Halley.
(c) The theme song of the Taggart Transcontinental Railway.
(d) A composition to a dead oak tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dr. Stadler questions why the man who was developing the revolutionary motor was working in a factory research lab, what is Dagny's reply?

2. How does Rand make a strong argument against incompetence?

3. Because of the Equity of Distribution Law, there is now a Deputy Director of Distribution handling all of Rearden Metal's orders. What is his nickname?

4. What decision does Dagny make when she is nine years old?

5. Rand uses the failure of Twentieth Century Motors to make what point about socialism?

(see the answer key)

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