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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jimmy Gowans want Roark to design and build for him?
(a) A hotel
(b) A house like Heller's
(c) An office building
(d) A gas station

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

4. Why does Katie show up at the apartment of Peter and his mother?
(a) She wants to warn Peter about Dominique.
(b) She had a sudden fear that something was wrong.
(c) She wanted to break her engagement to Peter.
(d) She was overly fond of Peter's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person to see through Dominique's constant criticism of Roark's work in her column?

2. How does Peter Keating get rid of Claude Stengle?

3. What event marked the beginning of Roark's own architecture firm?

4. Why is Roark dissatisfied at the Snyte firm?

5. What is the real meaning behind Dominique's critique on the Enright house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Dominique and Roark meet as strangers without names. Like the moth to the flame, Dominique is drawn back again and again to watch Roark at the quarry. Discuss the significance of Roark's domination of Dominique.

2. Dominique writes that the Enright house is a "mockery to all the structures of the city." Most people believe that she is panning the building. What is her real meaning?

3. Discuss Rand's use of premonition in chapter 12 when Katie shows up at Peter's apartment.

4. What are the similarities and differences between Howard Roark and Steven Mallory?

5. Discuss how Rand accuses critics of distorting reality when Peter finally meets Toohey.

6. At the beginning of the novel, Howard Roark stands naked on a granite cliff preparing to dive into the waves below. Describe how this scene sets the stage for the entire novel.

7. Ellsworth Toohey praises Francon's Melton Building because of its horizontal lines as opposed to the vertical lines of Cameron's skyscrapers. In what way does he think the horizontal lines are superior?

8. Describe the character flaws in Peter Keating in regard to both Heyer's death and his winning the Cosmo-Slotnik competition.

9. Discuss the irony of Peter going to Roark for help with his Cosmo-Slotnik competition design.

10. Explain how Snyte's idea of building by committee underscores the failure to deliver what the client wants.

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