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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. As they were flying away with John Galt, why did Galt tell Dagny not to look down?
(a) New York city disappeared from the face of the earth.
(b) He thought she might get air sick after all the excitement.
(c) He didn't want her to change her mind and go back.
(d) He knew the way New York drew people to the city.

2. At the end of the novel, what is Eddie Willers left with?
(a) He is now the President of Taggart Transcontinental.
(b) He is left with the responsibility to chronicle everything that has happened.
(c) He has lost everyting including his hope of marrying Dagny.
(d) He has only Dagny's gold cigarette case.

3. What is happening to trains everywhere in the nation?
(a) They run out of coal.
(b) They all derail.
(c) They stop running because of fear after the tunnel wreck.
(d) They are abandoned and the crews vanish.

4. Ultimately, what is the only light remaining on the earth outside of Atlantis?
(a) The lights of New York City.
(b) Wyatt's Torch
(c) The light of the east bound Comet.
(d) A lighthouse beacon.

5. When Kellogg gives Dagny a cigarette marked with the $ sign, why does he give her an entire pack of the cigarettes?
(a) Because she thinks they are very pretty.
(b) Because she doesn't ask him anything about the cigarettes.
(c) Because he says she's earned it.
(d) Because she forgot her cigarettes in New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the music heard in the valley as the industrial "strikers" arrive?

3. What revelation does Eddie Willers get when he hears the radio broadcast?

4. What news was in the letter the doorman had held for Dagny for a week?

5. What is the contrast between Dagny's response to the socialistic society and Cherryl's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the events as Stadler finds them at Project X.

2. What kind of assurance does Francisco try to give Dagny when he visits her in her apartment?

3. What happens when Washington politician Kip Chalmers insists that the stalled Comet go on through a dangerous tunnel because he has a speaking appointment in San Francisco.

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

5. As they take their leave, the city of New York disappears as they fly over. Explain the significance of that.

6. Discuss the implication of Project X as it relates to the communist society that builds it.

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. Describe the meeting between John Galt and Dr. Stadler.

9. Discuss Francisco's parting message to the world before he, too, disappears.

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

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