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

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

3. What do Gail Wynand and Dominique discuss when they go sailing?
(a) Politics
(b) Philosophy
(c) The weather
(d) Religion

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

5. What causes Wynand to lose respect for integrity?
(a) He does not lose respect for integrity. He always insists that all reporters tell the truth.
(b) He decides that only crime pays.
(c) He knows that he cannot be honest with anyone.
(d) He discovers that writers often do not believe their own words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wynand go often to the building site where Roark is working?

2. What finally defeats Wynand?

3. In his own defense, how does Roark contrast himself as a creator with those who preach selflessness?

4. How does Wynand get the last laugh on Toohey.

5. Who takes over the Cortlandt Homes project?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the symbolism of the Wynand Building rising from Hell's Kitchen.

2. What is the significance of Peter's going once again to Roark when he cannot come up with a design for the Cortlandt Homes project?

3. Describe the situation when Wynand sees that he has underestimated Toohey and is in danger of losing the paper.

4. Discuss how Rand uses Dominique's perceptions of Wynand and Roark to distinguish between greatness and drive.

5. Roark can stand tall because everything he has done has been his alone and he bears the responsibility for its success or failure. How does this contrast with the attacks against Wynand's newspaper?

6. Describe how Gail Wynand's early childhood led to his great cynicism.

7. Roark tells Peter that "it is I who have destroyed you." Explain what he means by that statement.

8. Wynand begins to find some inner peace from visiting the building site of his new house. Discuss the reasons for this change in Wynand.

9. How does the new drama critic plan to exercise power over the public?

10. What do the reactions of Ellsworth Toohey and Alvah Scarret say about their political leanings?

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