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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the police finally locate John Galt?
(a) They follow Dagny who leads them to her.
(b) Eddie Willers accidentally calls him by name at work.
(c) They announce that they are holding Dagny hostage.
(d) They put a trace on his radio broadcasts.

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

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

5. What is the significance of John Galt's transmitter that can block anything the government has?
(a) It symbolizes the guns Galt and his people will use against the society.
(b) It symbolizes how it is easy to force other people to think in a certain way.
(c) It shows that John Galt is ready to cooperate with the government.
(d) It symbolizes the superiority of industry over communistic ideas.

6. when Dagny comes to after her plane crashes in the Colorado mountains, who is the first person she sees?
(a) Quentin Daniels
(b) Hank Rearden
(c) Francisco d'Anconia
(d) John Galt

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

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

9. What has happened to Dagny during the time that John Galt was recaptured and taken away?
(a) She gets a gun and goes looking for Eddie Willers.
(b) She decides to join the others at Atlantis.
(c) She offers to tell everything she knows in exchange for John's life.
(d) She jumps to her death out of her apartment window.

10. In the former hotel suite of Francisco d'Anconia, what is the subtle meaning of that location when Rearden meets Mouch and the "Washington boys"?
(a) In a socialist society, those in power do not give up luxuries.
(b) It shames Rearden because he can no longer afford such luxury.
(c) It shows high regard for Francisco and all he stands for.
(d) It demonstrates the equality of the bosses and the people.

11. 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 be his Vice-President.
(c) He wants Galt to give the government his radio technology.
(d) He wants Galt to leave thecountry and never return.

12. 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 suggests that the faceless men will take over.
(b) He compares Dagny to the Unification Board.
(c) He compares her now to the time she waited outside Dannager's office.
(d) He says everyone must travel the same road to Atlantis.

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

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

15. What causes Dagny to resign from Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) Francisco's telephone call
(b) Directive 10-289
(c) The closing of the John Galt Line
(d) Eddie's resignation

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of Dr. Robert Stadler's death?

2. How does Rand use the history of Twentieth Century Motors to define communism?

3. What message on the city calendar marquee made Rearden laugh out loud?

4. What does Danneskjtzld leave behind when he disappears into the darkness?

5. What causes Dagny to return to Taggart Transcontinental?

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