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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 goes to James to find out what to do.
(c) She stops all trains until the lines can be repaired.
(d) She reverts to manual switching and lantern signals.

2. What does Galt suggest Thompson do if he is sincere about economic reform?
(a) Raise taxes and close all non-essential businesses.
(b) Abolish income taxes and fire all government employees.
(c) Set up a commission to regulate the flow of money.
(d) Divide all the money in the country evenly between all adults.

3. What crisis brings Rearden before the Unification Board?
(a) The steel workers strike demanding higher wages.
(b) A plan to return Rearden Metal to Hank.
(c) The need for Rearden Metal to decrease its production.
(d) Rearden's refusal to make steel.

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

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

6. How does James Taggart demonstrate his disdain for money?
(a) He gives a hundred dollar bill to a beggar.
(b) He burns his money in the fireplace.
(c) He buys Cherryl an improbably large diamond.
(d) He gives his money to Lillian.

7. Who flies over the valley looking for Dagny but cannot see the community below?
(a) Eddie Willers
(b) Phillip Rearden
(c) Jim Taggart
(d) Hank Rearden

8. Danneskjtzld contrasts himself with what legendary hero?
(a) Zorro
(b) Prometheus
(c) Robin Hood
(d) Achilles

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

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

11. What was John Galt's connection to Twentieth Century Motors?
(a) He once owned the company.
(b) He is Quentin Daniel's father.
(c) He was the young engineer building the revolutionary motor.
(d) He once owned that factory.

12. The communistic government wanted people to sacrifice their minds and products for the good of society. How is John Galt more honorable?
(a) He does not believe sacrifice is necessary.
(b) He thinks if people are allowed to create, they don't care about money.
(c) He believes the disappearing executives are wrong.
(d) Galt is willing to sacrifice his life for the good of society.

13. Who is the handsome blond man Dagny meets on her first morning in the valley?
(a) Ragnar Danneskjtzld
(b) Sebastian d'Anconia
(c) John Galt's brother
(d) Richard Halley

14. What does Dagny now realize about Francisco?
(a) That he lost his bets on industrialization.
(b) That he never liked running the copper mines.
(c) That he is John Galt.
(d) That he was the first industrialist to quit.

15. When Dagny, Hank, Francisco and Ragnar storm the Project F building, what indicates that Ragnar's reputation has preceded him?
(a) The guards all want his autograph when they find out who he is.
(b) The guards recognize him from newspaper photos.
(c) When he gives them his name, the guards moan.
(d) The guards are not afraid of the others even though they have guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Project X, a weapon of mass murder, define Rand's view of communism?

2. Why are there only half enough freight cars to ship the Minnesota wheat crop to the East coast?

3. What, according to Rand, is worse than taking someone's life?

4. After Rearden is knocked unconscious and comes to, who does he discover were helping to fight off the siege?

5. How does Hank protect Danneskjtzld when the police arrive?

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