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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the name of Wynand's yacht, the "I do"?
(a) It means I can do as I please.
(b) It means I like to be married.
(c) It means I do own a yacht.
(d) It means I do run things.

2. What is the next project Wynand wants Roark to take on?
(a) The Wynand Building in Hell's Kitchen.
(b) The city courthouse.
(c) A vacation house in the Bahamas.
(d) An addition to the Wynand house.

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

4. What does Toohey do with the contract between Roark and Peter when he gets it from Peter?
(a) He would like to burn it, but he turns it over to the DA.
(b) He puts it in a bottle and drops it in the ocean.
(c) He tears it to shreds.
(d) He gives it back to Peter.

5. How did the "Banner" review of the play "No Skin Off Your Nose" affect its success?
(a) It wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
(b) It closes right after opening.
(c) The public pans the play.
(d) It became a smash hit.

6. Who finally tells Gail Wynand the name of the sculptor who did the statue Toohey gave him?
(a) Roark
(b) Mallory
(c) Dominique
(d) Peter

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

8. How does Dominique compare the success of Ike's play with the destruction of Roark's temple?
(a) She says they were both great achievements of the Banner.
(b) She thinks they were unaffected by the newspaper.
(c) She thinks the play is more important than the temple.
(d) She thinks the paper dealt fairly with both issues.

9. Why is Peter unhappy in his marriage?
(a) Dominique still refuses to sleep with him.
(b) Dominique will not talk to him except at parties.
(c) Dominique is compliant and agrees with anything he says.
(d) Dominique always compares him to Roark.

10. Peter returns to his first love. What is that?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Writing short stories.
(d) Ballroom dancing.

11. What horrifies Dominique a month after the Wynand house is finished?
(a) Wynand invites Roark to spend the night and he accepts.
(b) Wynand tells Dominique that Roark must never be invited in.
(c) Wynand hates the house and wants to move.
(d) Wynand invites Roark to spend the night and he rejects the invitation.

12. Why, according to Roark, was Peter destroyed?
(a) Because he refused to listen to Toohey.
(b) Because he caused Heyer's death.
(c) Because he helped Peter.
(d) Because he married Dominique when he did not love her.

13. Why does Toohey tell a policeman to arrest him?
(a) To keep him from murdering Wynand.
(b) So he can get the publicity.
(c) To protect the guilty.
(d) To protect the innocent.

14. How does Toohey react when Wynand forbids any mention of Roark in the "Banner"?
(a) Toohey goes out and gets drunk.
(b) Toohey plans to write a book attacking Roark.
(c) Toohey smiles.
(d) Toohey goes into a rage.

15. What is the condition for Peter's getting the Stoneridge Homes project?
(a) Dominique must stay married to Peter.
(b) Peter must hire Mallory to do some sculptures.
(c) Dominique must go alone with Wynand on a cruise.
(d) Peter must tell Francon he is using Dominique to get the job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the new drama critic at the "Banner" promote Ike's new play that everyone says is bad?

2. How does Dominique get publicity that gets Wynand to divorce her?

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

4. How does Dominique feel about the Wynand building?

5. Why are Toohey and Scarret worried about the marriage of Dominique and Wynand?

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