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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dagny discover is working for her as a common laborer?
(a) Eddie Willers
(b) Cuffy Meigs
(c) Ragnar Danneskjtzld
(d) John Galt

2. How does Dr. Ferris get Hank Rearden to sign over Rearden Metal to the government?
(a) By holding Lillian hostage.
(b) By promising him that he can continue to run the company.
(c) By convincing him it is the right thing to do.
(d) By threatening to expose his affair with Dagny.

3. What causes Dagny to return to Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) News of the tunnel wreck.
(b) Her boredom.
(c) James' telephone call.
(d) Her disgust with Francisco.

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

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

6. Why does Lillian come to see James Taggart?
(a) She thinks he is powerful enough to stop Hank from divorcing her.
(b) Lillian wants to get rid of Cherryl because she is so common.
(c) She thinks he is a handsome, desirable man.
(d) Lillian wants to find out more dirt on Dagny.

7. How much will it cost Dagny to repair her airplane?
(a) The plane cannot be repaired
(b) $200.00 in gold
(c) Nothing, they do everything there for free
(d) $10,000.00 in US dollars

8. How is the secret of their location kept from the outside world?
(a) It is actually underground
(b) An artificial storm cloud
(c) A sonic distrubance
(d) A refractor ray

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

10. How does Rand use the history of Twentieth Century Motors to define communism?
(a) When everyone had everything in common, the plant flourished.
(b) When all motivation was taken away, no one wanted to work.
(c) Plants under government controll never fail.
(d) When capitalism ceases to be, everyone is happier.

11. Why does James Taggart insist that Rearden will always produce, even if he doesn't like the conditions?
(a) Because he always caves in.
(b) Because producing is in his blood.
(c) Because he will want to keep on helping Dagny.
(d) Because he would be bored if he did nothing.

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

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

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

15. What is the obvious symbolism of the Project X machine that is so destructive.
(a) The atomic bomb.
(b) The noise of a rock concert.
(c) The need for greater and greater weapons.
(d) The power of industrialists to destroy the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the owner of the valley?

2. What happens to a radio broadcast planned for the Head of State?

3. How does Dagny let it be known that she is back after her plane crashed?

4. What is happening to trains everywhere in the nation?

5. What promise does Dagny make before she returns to the outside world?

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