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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "the chain" represent to Henry Rearden?
(a) The close link he has to his mother.
(b) The demands made on him by an ungrateful family.
(c) All his accomplishments after years of hard work.
(d) The only thing that will ever come of Rearden metal.

2. How does Rand let the reader know that there is a connection between Francisco and Danneskjtzld?
(a) Francisco tells Rearden that Danneskjtzld is coming to the city.
(b) Francisco offers to introduce Rearden to Danneskjtzld.
(c) Francisco's horror when he learns that Rearden ordered d'Anconia copper.
(d) Francisco does not react when Rearden mentions Danneskjtzld's name.

3. What prevents Taggart Transcontinental from meeting Rearden's deadline for delivering steel?
(a) Danagger Coal cannot supply coal for the trains because its shipment goes to England.
(b) The coal miners all go on strike for higher wages.
(c) Danagger refuses to supply coal if it will help Rearden.
(d) The bridge on the Galt Line is blown up.

4. When Hank Rearden learns that the legislature has passed the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, what does he learn from Mouch, his lobbyist in Washington?
(a) Mouch says the President will veto the bill.
(b) Mouch offers to return the money Rearden has paid him.
(c) Nothing. Mouch is not answering his phone.
(d) Mouch tells him that the bill has no penalty written into it.

5. What sarcastic comment does Dagny make to James Taggart and Wesley Mouch?
(a) Which one of you is planning to rob a bank?
(b) Got what you've been asking for, all these years, gentlemen?
(c) You tell me how to run a train on bad rails.
(d) What's the point in running a business if there is no profit?

6. What was Francisco's nickname for Dagny when they were children?
(a) Mouse
(b) Pest
(c) Daggy
(d) Slug

7. How does Rand show James Taggart's opportunism after the success of the John Galt Line?
(a) He takes credit for its success.
(b) He gives Dagny credit for saving the company.
(c) He decides to build a new line of his own.
(d) He buys more stock in the John Galt Line.

8. What is the comparison Francisco makes between John Galt and Prometheus?
(a) John Galt invented fire.
(b) John Galt believes the total end is near for all mankind.
(c) John Galt is a Prometheus who changed his mind.
(d) John Galt has been eaten by vultures and is dead.

9. What did the National Alliance of Railroads pass to eliminate competition?
(a) Local and Transcontinental Rule
(b) Anti-cooperation Rule
(c) Every man for himself Rule
(d) Anti-dog-eat-dog Rule

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

11. Quentin Daniels is hired to reconstruct the revolutionary motor. What is Quentin's greatest desire.
(a) To prove the the motor will not work.
(b) To meet the man who conceived of the idea of the motor.
(c) To create a motor from his own concept.
(d) To improve the motor.

12. What does Dagny object to about the San Sebastian Line?
(a) That it is going to help the communist government.
(b) That is was not her idea.
(c) That it is using Rearden steel rails.
(d) That the Mexican government will subsidise it.

13. How does Rand indicate that Wesley Mouch, Rearden's Washington lobbyist, may not be working in Rearden's interest?
(a) He never goes to his office in Washington.
(b) He is at a meeting with Orren Boyle, James Taggart, and Paul Larkin.
(c) He cannot get in to see the President of the United States.
(d) He is at a meeting with Dagny and Owen Kellogg.

14. What is the surprising question Francisco poses to Dagny at the wedding reception?
(a) Don't you want to tell Lillian about your affair with her husband?
(b) Don't you want to know now: Who is John Galt?
(c) Have you met John Galt?
(d) Did you get permission to use John Galt's name on your new railroad line?

15. What caused Francisco's ancestor out of Spain to Argentina where he became wealthy as a copper miner?
(a) The Spanish Inquisition.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The Spanish Revolution.
(d) The Potato Famine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so revolutionary about the motor that never went into production?

2. Why does Dagny have to wait to get in to see Dannager when she goes to see him before his trial?

3. What is the image Francisco d'Anconia has in the public eye?

4. Rand uses the failure of Twentieth Century Motors to make what point about socialism?

5. What does Francisco d'Anconia say the socialists will use to replace "the aristocracy of money"?

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