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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. James and Cherryl begin their unlikely romance. Where does James meet her?
(a) At the train station.
(b) Friends introduce them.
(c) In a dime store.
(d) At a cocktail party.

2. When Dagny is held up by the stopped train, how does she continue her way to Colorado?
(a) She buys a plane and flies there.
(b) She hitchhikes to Colorado.
(c) She calls Hank to come take her the rest of the way.
(d) She buys a car and drives the rest of the way.

3. What causes Dagny to return to Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) News of the tunnel wreck.
(b) James' telephone call.
(c) Her disgust with Francisco.
(d) Her boredom.

4. How does Bertram Scudder, editor of "The Future" magazine, characterize Hank Rearden?
(a) As an alligator.
(b) As a shark.
(c) As an octopus.
(d) As a great philanthropist.

5. What is Dagny's reply to Cherryl's comment that she is "the woman in the Taggart family"?
(a) What am I? Chopped liver?
(b) Don't tell my dress maker.
(c) That's quiet all right. I'm the man.
(d) You're welcome to the job.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hank protect Danneskjtzld when the police arrive?

2. How does Dagny now realize that the government had used her, Rearden, and other industrialists?

3. What news does James Taggart receive that Dagny had predicted?

4. What is happening to trains everywhere in the nation?

5. What is the meaning of "Wyatt's torch"?

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