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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Unification Board is now in complete control and more regulations are passed. What is the result?
(a) The government refuses to nationalize businesses to save jobs.
(b) More businesses and executives disapear.
(c) People now have more money to spend.
(d) Production on everything increases.

2. What happens to a radio broadcast planned for the Head of State?
(a) Dagny agrees to be a part of the broadcast.
(b) The radio broadcast explains why everything is happening for the good of the people.
(c) John Galt takes over the broadcast to tell the world what has happened to the disappeared thinkers and producers.
(d) John Galt jams their broadcast so that the air is completely dead.

3. How does Dagny locate John Galt?
(a) She gets help from the police.
(b) She tells a foreman to bring him to her.
(c) She whistles Halley's Fifth Concerto and he answers her.
(d) She finds his name and address on her payroll account.

4. What is the last thing passengers see on Kip Chalmers' train as they enter the tunnel?
(a) Dagny standing by the tracks
(b) The wreck of another train
(c) The blue Rearden Metal rails
(d) Wyatt's Torch

5. What happens to all the South American d'Anconia Copper Mines immediately after they are nationalized by the various governments?
(a) The US government realizes it will now have to pay more for copper.
(b) The price of copper jumps to an all time high.
(c) The mines all prove to be worthless and used up.
(d) The are blown up and the top management disappears.

6. Dagny wants to build a narrow gauge railroad in the valley and then changes her mind. Why?
(a) It will keep her from returning to Taggart Transcontinental.
(b) The idea is ridiculous because it would serve no purpose.
(c) She is not an engineer.
(d) She can't do it without Rearden Metal.

7. How does Dagny now realize that the government had used her, Rearden, and other industrialists?
(a) By their helplessness.
(b) By their love of work and producing.
(c) By their stupidity.
(d) By their greed.

8. On a radio program what does Dagny say that causes the program to go suddenly off the air?
(a) She says that Hank's signature on the gift of Rearden Metal was forged.
(b) She says that Lillian was having an affair with Wesley Mouch.
(c) She tells how government blackmail over her affair with Hank caused him to sign over Rearden Metal.
(d) She says that Business Unification was responsible for blowing up Wyatt oil fields.

9. What is the music heard in the valley as the industrial "strikers" arrive?
(a) Beethoven's Ode to Joy
(b) Look for the Silver Lining
(c) Halley's Fifth Piano Concerto
(d) Tomorrow Is Another Day

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

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

12. Who is playing the piano at John Galt's house?
(a) Francisco
(b) Halley himself
(c) Dr. Hendricks
(d) Hugh Akston

13. In being true to herself, Dagny still does not get what Francisco has been trying to tell her. What analogy does Francisco make that Dagny misses?
(a) He says everyone must travel the same road to Atlantis.
(b) He compares Dagny to the Unification Board.
(c) He compares her now to the time she waited outside Dannager's office.
(d) He suggests that the faceless men will take over.

14. After Rearden is knocked unconscious and comes to, who does he discover were helping to fight off the siege?
(a) Phillip Rearden and Orren boyle
(b) John Galt and Ragnar Danneskjtzld
(c) Frank Adams and Francisco d'Anconia
(d) Jim Taggart and Wesley Mouch

15. As they were flying away with John Galt, why did Galt tell Dagny not to look down?
(a) He knew the way New York drew people to the city.
(b) He thought she might get air sick after all the excitement.
(c) He didn't want her to change her mind and go back.
(d) New York city disappeared from the face of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, what is the only light remaining on the earth outside of Atlantis?

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

3. What revelation does Eddie Willers get when he hears the radio broadcast?

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

5. Why does the siege represent a "Concerto of Deliverance"?

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