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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 is the conflict between Francon and Gail Wynand?
(a) Wynand wants to marry Francon's daughter.
(b) Wynand thinks Francon is going to take over his newspaper.
(c) Francon is jealous of Wynand's privileged upbringing.
(d) They compete for the affections of Lili Landau.

2. How does Dominique get her information to write an article about the slums?
(a) She goes to live in the slums.
(b) She has a photographer go and take pictures of the slums.
(c) She confronts the owners of the slums.
(d) She interviews people who once lived in the slums.

3. Why does Roark hire Mallory to make the sculpture for the temple he is building?
(a) He thinks Mallory's work is excellent.
(b) He thinks he can control Mallory.
(c) He wants to insult Toohey.
(d) He thinks he can get Mallory to work cheap.

4. How does Peter go about getting rid of Heyer?
(a) He informs Francon that Heyer is embezzling from the company.
(b) He confronts him with a shady business deal Heyer once made.
(c) He puts medication in Heyer's coffee that causes him to have a stroke.
(d) He plays up his friendship with the old man.

5. When Peter hears that Toohey has been shot, what is his first concern?
(a) That Katie will not marry him after that.
(b) That Roark finally snapped after Toohey's attacks on his buildings.
(c) That Toohey will think Peter was the one who tried to kill him.
(d) That Toohey's favorable article about him might not get published.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Roark shows up uninvited at Dominique's door?

2. What does Peter tell Toohey about Roark.

3. What does Dominique think her private relationship with Roark gives her when they meet in public?

4. How was Roark able to reopen his architecture business?

5. What best describes Peter's proposal to Katie?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the conflicting passions of Roark and Dominique result in an act of violence?

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

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

4. Peter's lack of integrity comes to light in his efforts to get Claude Stengel's job. How does the method he uses to accomplish his purpose relate to the theme of the book?

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

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

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

8. Explain how Roark's getting his hands dirty at a building site wins over the admiration of the electrician, Mike.

9. Discuss the significance of Peter's intimidation by Lois Cook.

10. 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?

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