Atlas Shrugged Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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Atlas Shrugged Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9 "The Generator".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 turned out to be John Galt.
(b) The man, Jeff Allen, once worked at Twentieth Century Motors.
(c) He knew how to operate a train.
(d) He could finish the work Quentin Daniels had started.

2. How does Dagny deal with the failure of communications on the Taggart Transcontinental when copper wire breaks and cannot be quickly replaced?
(a) She turns the problem over to Cuffy Meigs.
(b) She reverts to manual switching and lantern signals.
(c) She goes to James to find out what to do.
(d) She stops all trains until the lines can be repaired.

3. 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?
(a) Maybe the Science Institute turned him down.
(b) Maybe he couldn't find another place.
(c) He probably liked living on this earth.
(d) He probably came from somewhere around here.

4. Why are there only half enough freight cars to ship the Minnesota wheat crop to the East coast?
(a) All the other cars have fallen apart.
(b) Many of the freight cars have been converted into passenger cars.
(c) Meigs has sent the other 7,000 cars to pick up swamp soybeans in Louisiana.
(d) The wheat crop is not really important because there is enough wheat in the East already.

5. How much will it cost Dagny to repair her airplane?
(a) The plane cannot be repaired
(b) $200.00 in gold
(c) Nothing, they do everything there for free
(d) $10,000.00 in US dollars

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of the State Science Institute's demand for 10,000 tons of Rearden Metal?

2. How do the police finally locate John Galt?

3. How does Dagny locate John Galt?

4. What is the symbolism of the explosion in the Colorado tunnel?

5. What caused Francisco's ancestor out of Spain to Argentina where he became wealthy as a copper miner?

(see the answer key)

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