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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 so unusual about the cigarette Dagny gets from Dr. Hugh Akston?
(a) It is made of unusual tobacco.
(b) It cannot be lit.
(c) It is marked with a gold dollar sign.
(d) It is rolled in colored paper.

2. What is Rand's symbol of the ultimate destruction of socialism?
(a) The decision to use Project F on John Galt to get him to cooperate.
(b) The failure of John Galt to escape.
(c) Dagny giving in to all demands in order to save John Galt.
(d) The devastating destruction of Project X and areas of four states around it.

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

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

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 meet the man who conceived of the idea of the motor.
(d) To create a motor from his own concept.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Owen Kellogg's reply to Dagny when she asks him why he is resigning from Taggert Railway?

2. What conflict does Rand set up within the character of Dagny Taggart?

3. When Dagny is held up by the stopped train, how does she continue her way to Colorado?

4. Who does Dagny discover is working for her as a common laborer?

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

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