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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 Toohey demand be done with Roark?
(a) He wants Roark to rebuild using his original plans.
(b) He wants to free Roark.
(c) He wants Roark to make a public apology.
(d) He wants him executed.

2. When does Peter become the head of the architecture firm?
(a) When Toohey buys an interest in the firm.
(b) When Francon retires.
(c) When Neil Durant becomes a partner.
(d) When Dominique decides not to divorce him.

3. What is the next project Wynand wants Roark to take on?
(a) An addition to the Wynand house.
(b) The city courthouse.
(c) The Wynand Building in Hell's Kitchen.
(d) A vacation house in the Bahamas.

4. What becomes of Gail Wynand?
(a) He sees himself as dead and the Wynand building as his memorial marker.
(b) He sets fire to his house and dies in the flames.
(c) He jumps from the top of the Wynand building.
(d) He goes to sea and is lost.

5. After Dominique returns from Reno, where are she and Wynand married?
(a) At the Noyes-Belmont Hotel.
(b) On board Wynand's yacht.
(c) In the Banner building.
(d) At city hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finally tells Gail Wynand the name of the sculptor who did the statue Toohey gave him?

2. Why, according to Roark, was Peter destroyed?

3. Why does Toohey tell a policeman to arrest him?

4. Why has Toohey orchestrated attacks on the "Banner"?

5. What underhanded trick do the Aquitania Hotel developers play that backfires on them?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Wynand presents Dominique with a diamond necklace, they have two different takes on where the money came from to pay for it. What were those points of view and what did each one mean?

2. Toohey works hard to see that Roark is convicted. Why is he so intent on that outcome?

3. In spite of his socialist tutoring from Toohey, Peter retains some sense of "I." How does Rand use Dominique to illustrate that point?

4. How does Dominique use the story of the false theft of her diamond ring to take her stand for, instead of against, Roark?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Toohey seems to be gaining the upper hand in his quest to take over the "Banner." What is the significance of the public turning against Wynand's publication?

8. Discuss the meaning Rand places on the last meeting of Peter and Katie.

9. How does Wynand exonerate himself and regain his own integrity?

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

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