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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Gail Wynand able to build the Wynand building after shutting down the "Banner"?
(a) He uses money he had hidden in the Bahamas.
(b) He has just enough of his fortune left to do it.
(c) He sells his yacht.
(d) He sells the house Roark built for him and Dominique.

2. What underhanded trick do the Aquitania Hotel developers play that backfires on them?
(a) Refusing to pay Roark when the project was late being finished.
(b) Knowing they were going backrupt, they sold properties anyway.
(c) Hiring Roark so that everyone would think he was responsible for the bankruptcy.
(d) Over-selling the properties by 200% in the hopes they would go bankrupt.

3. Where is Katie living now?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Cortlandt Homes.
(c) With Toohey.
(d) Washington.

4. What is the gift Toohey sends to Gail Wynand?
(a) A painting of the Banner building.
(b) A copy of his book.
(c) The Mallory statue.
(d) A plaque for community service.

5. Why does Wynand go often to the building site where Roark is working?
(a) He wants to reassure himself that he made the right choice.
(b) He want to make sure Roark is following orders.
(c) He finds real peace when he goes there.
(d) He cannot remember from day to day what it looks like.

6. How do we know that Wynand is not always aware of what his newspaper prints?
(a) He has to ask Dominique who Roark is.
(b) He never comes in to the newspaper office.
(c) He asks for all the articles on Roark after his visit.
(d) He trusts his writers to write with integrity.

7. When does Peter become the head of the architecture firm?
(a) When Dominique decides not to divorce him.
(b) When Neil Durant becomes a partner.
(c) When Francon retires.
(d) When Toohey buys an interest in the firm.

8. What sin does Peter confess after seeing Katie again?
(a) Not marrying her after sleeping with her.
(b) Leading her on when he never intended to marry her.
(c) Not marrying her when he wanted to.
(d) Not taking his mother's advice to marry Katie.

9. What does Toohey demand be done with Roark?
(a) He wants him executed.
(b) He wants Roark to rebuild using his original plans.
(c) He wants to free Roark.
(d) He wants Roark to make a public apology.

10. Although Wynand actually does love Dominique, what is more important to him in their relationship?
(a) That their marriage is romantic.
(b) That she is so different from him.
(c) That she is so influential in society.
(d) The fact that he owns her.

11. What causes Wynand to lose respect for integrity?
(a) He does not lose respect for integrity. He always insists that all reporters tell the truth.
(b) He knows that he cannot be honest with anyone.
(c) He decides that only crime pays.
(d) He discovers that writers often do not believe their own words.

12. What in the relationship between Roark and Wynand is distressing to Dominique?
(a) She sees that they have a real affinity for each other.
(b) She sees that Wynand is secretly out to ruin Roark.
(c) She thinks Roark is not telling Wynand the truth.
(d) She thinks Roark is finally compromising his art.

13. What is behind Wynand's association with Roark and Dominique?
(a) He collects people he wants to possess.
(b) He wants to get them back together.
(c) He knows this is a way to punish Dominique.
(d) He enjoys seeing them uncomfortable around each other.

14. Why is Dominique jealous after the house is built?
(a) She is jealous because she says Wynand loves her statue and not her.
(b) She is jealous of Roark's friendship with Wynand.
(c) She is jealous of the people who still write for the newspaper.
(d) She is jealous of Katie who is now seeing Roark.

15. What becomes of Toohey?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He goes to jail for attempting to kill Roark.
(c) He has a heart attack and dies.
(d) He starts all over again at another newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of Roark's going to see Wynand about designing his house?

2. What horrifies Dominique a month after the Wynand house is finished?

3. What does Peter discover is the real reason behind Toohey's socialist tirades?

4. What does Toohey do with the contract between Roark and Peter when he gets it from Peter?

5. Why has Toohey orchestrated attacks on the "Banner"?

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