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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 4 "Anti-Life".

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 plays poker with the Mexican President in a winner-take-all game.
(c) He knows the mines are worthless and wants to watch them go down with their own greed.
(d) He plays a game of marbles on the hotel room floor.

2. What is the real outcome after the court fines Rearden $5,000 and gives him a suspended sentence?
(a) Lillian's social connections are destroyed.
(b) Other industrialists will go out of business.
(c) Rearden will have to comply with the government rules.
(d) In effect, he has won against the government.

3. When the Taggart board and the Washington influence peddlers meet, what is the irony of their meeting place?
(a) It is unheated because of the coal shortages.
(b) It gives complete control of Taggart Transcontinental to the government.
(c) It is in Dagny's office.
(d) It is held in the terminal beneath the statue of Nathaniel Taggart.

4. Danneskjtzld contrasts himself with what legendary hero?
(a) Zorro
(b) Robin Hood
(c) Achilles
(d) Prometheus

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. At the party, James Taggart demands that Francisco explain why the San Sebastian mines are worthless. What is Francisco's ironic reply?

2. Why do Hank and Dagny try to find the old Twentieth Century Motor company?

3. What did the National Alliance of Railroads pass to eliminate competition?

4. when Dagny comes to after her plane crashes in the Colorado mountains, who is the first person she sees?

5. What does Danneskjtzld leave behind when he disappears into the darkness?

(see the answer key)

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