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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 was the result of Dominique's articles on the slums?
(a) Waynand refuses to buy the slums.
(b) The landlords sell the slums.
(c) Dominique gets a new job in slum welfare.
(d) The landlords lower the rent on the slums.

2. How does Dominique contrive to get Roark to her father's house in Connecticut?
(a) She invites him to a candlelight dinner.
(b) She fakes falling off her horse near the quarry.
(c) She threatens to have him fired from the quarry.
(d) She damages the fireplace in her bedroom and asks him to repair it.

3. What is the chief reaction of the public to Stoddard's temple?
(a) They think it is a new religion.
(b) They like the building but hate the statue.
(c) They praise its originality.
(d) They call it blasphemy.

4. What indicates that John Eric Snyte regretted firing Roark?
(a) He believes he can control Roark if he is working for Snyte's firm.
(b) He now believes that Roark will become the greatest architect of the day.
(c) He wants to please Austen Heller who likes Roark.
(d) He tries to lure him back into his firm with an offer of more money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who actually does the designs for Francon and Heyer?

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

3. How does Dominique feel about Roark in Connecticut?

4. When the Heller house is finished, how is it received?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Toohey successfully manipulates Stoddard into hiring Roark to design and build his "temple." When it is finished, Toohey creates an uproar among the public by denouncing it as "blasphemy." Although Dominique regrets the public reaction, she still agrees to testify for Stoddard in the lawsuit he files. How does Dominique explain her actions?

6. After being fired from her job, Dominique begins a series of self-punishments. How does Peter Keating come into this picture?

7. Contrast the difference between Roark and Peter as they attend Kiki Holcombe's party.

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

9. 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?

10. Even after Dominique gives testimony that should have swayed the jury, Stoddard wins the lawsuit. Gail Wynand cables the "Banner" to fire Dominique. What is the significance of Dominique's reaction to being fired?

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