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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Peter go about getting rid of Heyer?
(a) He informs Francon that Heyer is embezzling from the company.
(b) He puts medication in Heyer's coffee that causes him to have a stroke.
(c) He plays up his friendship with the old man.
(d) He confronts him with a shady business deal Heyer once made.

2. How is it clear that Peter knows Dominique is in love with another man?
(a) He accuses her of loving Howard Roark.
(b) She refuses to move into his apartment.
(c) She refuses to sleep with him.
(d) He asks her who it is.

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

4. Why is the opening of the temple canceled?
(a) Toohey is not ready to destroy Roark.
(b) Stoddard is horrified at the design.
(c) Mallory has not finished the stature.
(d) It is postponed because there needs to be more publicity.

5. When the Heller house is finished, how is it received?
(a) It is either ignored or ridiculed.
(b) Everyone now wants houses designed by Roark.
(c) Peter Keating wants to design houses just like it.
(d) It gets rave reviews from Ellsworth Toohey.

6. What was the result of Dominique's articles on the slums?
(a) Dominique gets a new job in slum welfare.
(b) The landlords lower the rent on the slums.
(c) Waynand refuses to buy the slums.
(d) The landlords sell the slums.

7. How does Toohey get offered a job as a Banner columnist?
(a) He offers to work for free.
(b) He publishes his book.
(c) He threatens to organize a workers' strike.
(d) He is recommended by Francon.

8. Where does Peter finally get to meet Dominique?
(a) In her father's office
(b) At the opening of his latest building
(c) At a party given by Kiki Holcombe
(d) At a rally where Ellsworth Toohey is speaking

9. Why does Roark agree to go to the Holcombe party?
(a) He respects Peter and Toohey so much.
(b) He wants to reject working for Holcombe.
(c) He has not eaten in several days.
(d) He knows Dominique will be there.

10. How is Dominique disappointed in her relationship with Roark?
(a) She wants to change and be supportive of his work.
(b) She plans to stop seeing him.
(c) She thinks it is too easy to control Roark.
(d) She feels that he has gained power over her.

11. What is the socialist theme of Toomey's book, "Sermons in Stone"?
(a) That buildings should be functional as well as beautiful.
(b) That architecture has nothing to do with culture or the environment.
(c) That architecture should be about what people want.
(d) That only brilliant minds can design buildings.

12. At the firm of John Eric Snyte, what type of building design is assigned to Roark?
(a) Classical
(b) Colonial
(c) Modern
(d) Renaissance

13. How was Roark able to reopen his architecture business?
(a) He inherited money from Heyer.
(b) Dominique secretly supported him.
(c) Peter loaned him the money.
(d) He got the Enright contract.

14. How does Dominique react when Toohey accuses her of being in love with Roark?
(a) She is insensed.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She does not react.
(d) She tells him to mind his own business.

15. What event in Toohey's childhood marks the beginning of his conflict with the bright and the beautiful?
(a) He makes fun of his parents.
(b) He took candy to do other students' homework.
(c) He sprays water on Johnny Stokes' new suit.
(d) He only attends parties of popular students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Peter want Roark to abandon his plan to open his own firm?

2. What indicates that John Eric Snyte regretted firing Roark?

3. What does Peter think of Roark's design for the Enright house?

4. How do the newspapers treat Henry Cameron's retirement?

5. What does Toohey call the "Unfinished Symphony"?

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