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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the real outcome after the court fines Rearden $5,000 and gives him a suspended sentence?
(a) Other industrialists will go out of business.
(b) Lillian's social connections are destroyed.
(c) Rearden will have to comply with the government rules.
(d) In effect, he has won against the government.

2. What sarcastic comment does Dagny make to James Taggart and Wesley Mouch?
(a) You tell me how to run a train on bad rails.
(b) What's the point in running a business if there is no profit?
(c) Which one of you is planning to rob a bank?
(d) Got what you've been asking for, all these years, gentlemen?

3. When Dagny demands that Francisco tell her why Ellis Wyatt will be wiped out in Colorado, why does he refuse to tell her?
(a) He says she is not ready to hear the answer.
(b) He says only John Galt knows for sure.
(c) He says he wants to take over the oil industry.
(d) He says she already knows.

4. At home and in despair, what music is Dagny listening to when she puts down her head and cries?
(a) Tchaikovski's Symphony Pathetique
(b) Halley's opera,
(c) Cry Me a River
(d) Halley's Fourth Concerto

5. What does Francisco d'Anconia say the socialists will use to replace "the aristocracy of money"?
(a) The commonality of all men
(b) The destruction of all aristocracy
(c) The aristocracy of influence.
(d) The aristocracy of everyone

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "the chain" represent to Henry Rearden?

2. Because of the Equity of Distribution Law, there is now a Deputy Director of Distribution handling all of Rearden Metal's orders. What is his nickname?

3. Why does Dagny have to wait to get in to see Dannager when she goes to see him before his trial?

4. What is the image Francisco d'Anconia has in the public eye?

5. What is the result of the government's decision to divert coal to the People's Republic of England?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly explain Dr. Stadler's surprise that the motor Dagny found was being developed in a remote automobile factory.

2. Why is the idea of "motive" so important in the novel? Explain in detail.

3. At first, Hank Rearden dislikes Francisco d'Anconia. Explain his reasons.

4. Write a few paragraphs on why Hank Rearden does not mind supporting his idle family but refuses to give Phillip a job he is not qualified to handle.

5. Using the example of the Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog rule, explain in a few paragraphs how eliminating competition by legislation destroys productivity.

6. Francisco engineers a huge financial fraud on the Mexican government and greedy shareholders like James Taggart and Orren Boyle. Then he asks Dagny, "Who is John Galt?" How does Rand use his character to build suspense?

7. Describe the meaning and the purpose of "white blackmail."

8. How does the Twentieth Century Motor Company demonstrate the results of the communistic idea of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"?

9. Dagny sees Hank Rearden as a "man who belongs on earth." Explain why.

10. Rand introduces "Wyatt's Torch" as Dagny returns on the train to Wyatt Junction. What does the term suggest?

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