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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people say about Roark's work after the opening of the Enright house?
(a) It is an improvement over the classical style.
(b) It is cold and inhuman.
(c) It is a work of genius.
(d) It is the new direction all architecture will follow.

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

3. Why does Roark hire Mallory to make the sculpture for the temple he is building?
(a) He thinks Mallory's work is excellent.
(b) He thinks he can get Mallory to work cheap.
(c) He wants to insult Toohey.
(d) He thinks he can control Mallory.

4. What is the real meaning behind Dominique's critique on the Enright house?
(a) She says that it is a ridiculous looking structure.
(b) She writes that it should be copied by other architects.
(c) She is subtly saying that it is a work of genius.
(d) She thinks the houses near it make it look all that much worse.

5. What does Dominique think her private relationship with Roark gives her when they meet in public?
(a) Fear that he will say something
(b) A big laugh
(c) Power to control him
(d) A serious heatbreak

6. What event prevents Peter from marrying Katie?
(a) He elopes with Dominique.
(b) He regrets not being honest with Katie.
(c) Toohey locks Katie in her room to stop the wedding.
(d) Peter's mother talks him out of the marriage.

7. Why is Roark fired from the Snyte firm?
(a) Roark's design for the Heller house was defective.
(b) He refused to work with Austen Heller.
(c) Austen Heller refused to allow Roark to design his house.
(d) He removed the work other architects added to his design for Austen Heller.

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

9. What is Roark's attitude after being expelled from school?
(a) He thinks being an architect will be more difficult but not impossible.
(b) He is ashamed of himself for being so stupid.
(c) He thinks he was wrong to criticize the classical style.
(d) He believes he will never be an architect.

10. When Dominique reveals that Toohey got Roark the job of building the temple to destroy him, what is Roark's reaction?
(a) He resigns as the temple architect.
(b) He decides to do a classical building to fool Toohey.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He thinks about killing Toohey.

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

12. What does Toohey call the "Unfinished Symphony"?
(a) Mallory's career as a sculptor.
(b) His plan to destroy Roark.
(c) The Cosmo-Slotnik building.
(d) The Aquitania Hotel project.

13. What is Peter's condition when he visits Katie and insists they marry the following day?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He is finally happy with his life.
(c) He is angry with himself for testifying in Roark's favor.
(d) He is afraid that Katie will reject him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmy Gowans want Roark to design and build for him?

2. Why does Peter Keating offer to do Davis' work after hours?

3. When Peter feels the stress of the strike, where does he go with Katie?

4. How does Peter go about getting rid of Heyer?

5. Where does Peter finally get to meet Dominique?

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