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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. Why is Roark expelled from the Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology?
(a) His designs do not conform to the classical style.
(b) He copies the work of other students.
(c) He really has no talent as an architect.
(d) He misses too many lectures.

2. What happens to the sculptor Mallory?
(a) He goes to prison for twenty years.
(b) He is sentenced to die.
(c) He skips out on his bail.
(d) He receives a suspended sentence.

3. What brings about the downfall of Henry Cameron?
(a) His lack of social graces
(b) His alcoholism
(c) The structural weaknesses of his designs
(d) The Columbian Exposition of Chicago

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

5. Why do Roark and the electrician, Mike, become great friends?
(a) Mike sees Roark get his hands dirty on a building site.
(b) Roark thinks Mike can help him with his designs.
(c) Both men hate Henry Cameron.
(d) Mike has great respect for all architects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Roark fired from the Snyte firm?

2. Although Stoddard wins the lawsuit against Roark, what happens to Dominique?

3. In what way is Peter Keating better equipped for getting new commissions than Roark?

4. What is the irony of Heyer's death?

5. At the firm of John Eric Snyte, what type of building design is assigned to Roark?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss Dominique's idea that beautiful things should not exist in the real world.

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

4. 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?

5. 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.

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

7. Discuss the idea of "ownership" in the relationship between Dominique and Roark.

8. What is meant by the description of the Stoddard temple as being "like a corpse hacked to pieces and reassembled?"

9. 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.

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

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