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

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

3. 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) All the other cars have fallen apart.
(c) Meigs has sent the other 7,000 cars to pick up swamp soybeans in Louisiana.
(d) Many of the freight cars have been converted into passenger cars.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Rand's symbol of the ultimate destruction of socialism?

4. How has Cherryl changed from the dime store clerk James married?

5. What does Dagny's insistence on working as housemaid for John Galt say about her.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how differently Dagny and Cherryl work to get out of an unacceptable situation.

2. Describe some of the regulations under Directive 10-289.

3. Describe the first meeting between Hank Rearden and Ragnar Danneskjtzld.

4. Summarize the message John Galt gives to the people when he takes control of the radio frequency.

5. Describe the revelation Dagny gets from the vagrant worker she invited to dinner on the train.

6. What happens in the valley that indicates that Dagny is not yet ready to drop out and join everyone there?

7. After her plane crash, Dagny wakes up in the valley that Rand compares to Atlantis, a lost continent. What does she then realize?

8. After they capture John Galt, explain why his life is not in immediate danger.

9. How does Dr. Ferris get Hank Rearden to sign over Rearden Metal to the government?

10. Discuss the fact that Dagny refuses to take money from John Galt unless she works for it.

(see the answer keys)

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