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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rand make it clear that Eddie's mysterious cafeteria friend is the illusive John Galt?
(a) He never has to ask.
(b) He admits it to Eddie but swears him to secrecy.
(c) Eddie comes right out and asks him.
(d) The cigarette butts with the $ sign in the ashtray.

2. What message on the city calendar marquee made Rearden laugh out loud?
(a) We know who John Galt is.
(b) We declare a four day work week starting immediately.
(c) Wanted: Someone who knows how to run a steel plant.
(d) Brother, you asked for it! Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia.

3. What is the contrast between Dagny's response to the socialistic society and Cherryl's?
(a) Cherryl resigns herself to poverty but Dagny finds ways of making more money.
(b) Dagny gives up but Cherryl makes James Taggart suffer.
(c) Dagny fights, but Cherryl commits suicide.
(d) Cherryl understands everything, but Dagny is confused.

4. What is the name of the regulation that effectively kills all creativity in business?
(a) The Business Licensing Act
(b) Directive 10-289
(c) The Transcontinental Act
(d) The Patents and Copyrights Act

5. At the end of the novel, what is Eddie Willers left with?
(a) He has only Dagny's gold cigarette case.
(b) He is left with the responsibility to chronicle everything that has happened.
(c) He is now the President of Taggart Transcontinental.
(d) He has lost everyting including his hope of marrying Dagny.

6. What is the doctrine Galt says is used to keep otherwise rational people in line?
(a) Guilt
(b) Might makes right
(c) Subordination
(d) Compassion

7. Where does Hank finally meet up with Danneskjtzld?
(a) On his walk at night.
(b) In the ruins of Rearden Metal.
(c) In Dagny's cabin.
(d) At his apartment in the city.

8. When the east bound Comet stalls in the desert, how are the passengers taken away?
(a) On a produce truck.
(b) On buses.
(c) On foot.
(d) On a horse drawn wagon.

9. What promise does Dagny make before she returns to the outside world?
(a) She will destroy the railroad before she returns.
(b) She will bring back Hank when she returns.
(c) She will not reveal anything about it or try to find it again.
(d) She will return within one month.

10. How does Galt remove suspicion from Dagny at his capture?
(a) He pushes her out the back door before he lets the police in.
(b) He calls her a government stooge.
(c) He pulls a gun on her and tells the police she is his hostage.
(d) He knocks her unconscious.

11. Who is the owner of the valley?
(a) John Galt
(b) Midas Mulligan
(c) Dr. Hendricks
(d) Francisco d'Anconia

12. How is Project X, a weapon of mass murder, define Rand's view of communism?
(a) It shows how powerful communism is and there is no way to defeat it.
(b) It shows that absolute power is good for the people in general.
(c) It defines the limits of a Cold War.
(d) It takes away material things and destroys the world that capitalism has built.

13. What does the Head of State Thompson want from Galt?
(a) He wants Galt to tell him how to fix the economy.
(b) He wants Galt to give the government his radio technology.
(c) He wants Galt to leave thecountry and never return.
(d) He wants Galt to be his Vice-President.

14. Hank realizes that their affair is over. What ended it?
(a) Dagny has fallen in love with John Galt.
(b) Dagny can no longer let Hank cheat on Lillian.
(c) Dagny wants to return to Francisco now that she understands him.
(d) Dagny is infatuated with Ragnar Danneskjtzld.

15. What is the irony of Dr. Robert Stadler's death?
(a) He was killed trying to save the world.
(b) He was killed in the place he had run to for safety.
(c) He went bravely to his death still believing he was right.
(d) He had always protected John Galt from men like Meigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the gold $ sign on the cigarettes?

2. What crisis brings Rearden before the Unification Board?

3. When Kellogg gives Dagny a cigarette marked with the $ sign, why does he give her an entire pack of the cigarettes?

4. How do the police finally locate John Galt?

5. How does Dagny locate John Galt?

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