View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter learn from Francon?
(a) The need to avoid Ellsworth Toomey
(b) How to improve his designs
(c) How to become an independent thinker
(d) The social skills needed for success

2. Why do Roark and the electrician, Mike, become great friends?
(a) Roark thinks Mike can help him with his designs.
(b) Mike sees Roark get his hands dirty on a building site.
(c) Mike has great respect for all architects.
(d) Both men hate Henry Cameron.

3. What is the conflict between Francon and Gail Wynand?
(a) Wynand thinks Francon is going to take over his newspaper.
(b) Wynand wants to marry Francon's daughter.
(c) Francon is jealous of Wynand's privileged upbringing.
(d) They compete for the affections of Lili Landau.

4. What does Dominique want to do to Roark?
(a) She wants to make him apologize for raping her.
(b) She wants to make him a star.
(c) She wants to destroy him as an architect.
(d) She wants to marry him.

5. Francon and Toomey agree about architecture for what reason?
(a) They both predict radical changes in how buildings are built.
(b) They both see architecture as having certain bounds and limitations.
(c) They are both socialists.
(d) They both believe in capitalism.

6. What happens to the sculptor Mallory?
(a) He goes to prison for twenty years.
(b) He receives a suspended sentence.
(c) He is sentenced to die.
(d) He skips out on his bail.

7. What is Lois Cook's criteria for her new house?
(a) It must be ugly and defy popular ideas of beauty.
(b) It must look like an Italian palace.
(c) It must have at least three floors.
(d) It must be the most beautiful house in New York.

8. What brings about the downfall of Henry Cameron?
(a) His lack of social graces
(b) The Columbian Exposition of Chicago
(c) The structural weaknesses of his designs
(d) His alcoholism

9. Why does Francon contact Roark on the design of a new building?
(a) Francon knows Roark will compromise with his ideas of classicism.
(b) The client rejected all of the designs Francon presented to them.
(c) Peter is out of town and does not want the job.
(d) Francon secretly admires Roark's independent ideas.

10. What happens when Roark shows up uninvited at Dominique's door?
(a) He tells her who he really is.
(b) He destroys the new fireplace.
(c) He refuses to make love to her.
(d) He takes her by force.

11. How do the newspapers treat Henry Cameron's retirement?
(a) They devote a full page to his achievements.
(b) They honor him as the premiere architect of all time.
(c) They give it little space and misspell the names of his buildings.
(d) They make no mention of his retirement at all.

12. What infuriates Dominique about the replacement fireplace?
(a) It has obscene carvings on it.
(b) Roark sends another workman to install it.
(c) It does not blend in with the architecture of the house.
(d) It is ugly.

13. Why is Roark dissatisfied at the Snyte firm?
(a) No one wants to build his designs.
(b) He gets credit for other people's work.
(c) His designs are altered by other architects.
(d) He dislikes designing modern style buildings.

14. Before his death, what warning does Cameron give Roark?
(a) He warns against the power of Wynand's newspaper.
(b) He warns against going against public tastes.
(c) He warns against marrying Dominique.
(d) He warns against trusting Peter.

15. Unable to get work as an architect, what does Roark do to earn a living?
(a) He takes a job as a short order cook.
(b) He gets a job at the bank.
(c) He decides to marry a wealthy widow.
(d) He goes to work for Mike in a quarry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief reaction of the public to Stoddard's temple?

2. What spoils Peter's joy at winning the "most beautiful building" contest?

3. When Dominique offers to have her marriage to Peter annulled, what is Roark's reaction?

4. What are Roark's criteria for designing a new building?

5. Who takes a shot at Ellsworth Toohey?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 738 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample