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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. How does James Taggart retain his position as President of Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) He pays exhorbitant bribes.
(b) His firing of Dagny.
(c) His marriage to Cherryl which shows he is for the people.
(d) He joins the influence peddlers from Washington.
2. What is the coincidence of Dagny stopping the conductor from throwing a vagrant off the train she is taking to see Quentin Daniels?
(a) He knew how to operate a train.
(b) He turned out to be John Galt.
(c) He could finish the work Quentin Daniels had started.
(d) The man, Jeff Allen, once worked at Twentieth Century Motors.
3. What show of support does Dagny get from employees of Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) They all buy stock in the John Galt Line.
(b) They vote her in as President of Taggart Transcontinental.
(c) They give a banquet in her honor.
(d) They line the route with guns to protect the train.
4. What is the lie that James Taggart tells the Board of Taggert Railroad?
(a) That he foresaw this action, cut the schedule and removed the good equipment from that line.
(b) That the whole thing was Dagny's fault since she wanted the Mexican line.
(c) That he would pay for all the company losses out of his own pocket.
(d) That Francisco d'Anconia had sold his copper mines to Mexico.
5. How old was Francisco when he took over d'Anconia Copper Mines?
(a) Sixteen
(b) Twenty-seven
(c) Twenty-three
(d) Thirty-one
Short Answer Questions
1. Rand uses the failure of Twentieth Century Motors to make what point about socialism?
2. How does Rand use the marriage of James and Cherryl to make her point against social philosophy?
3. Who flies over the valley looking for Dagny but cannot see the community below?
4. What, according to Rand, is worse than taking someone's life?
5. Why does Dagny have to wait to get in to see Dannager when she goes to see him before his trial?
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