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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. Who takes over the Cortlandt Homes project?
(a) Gail Wynand.
(b) Dominique Francon.
(c) Roger Enright.
(d) Ellsworth Toohey.

2. What is the irony of Roark's going to see Wynand about designing his house?
(a) Wynand's newspaper attacked Roark and Wynand has taken Dominique away.
(b) Roark is now prepared to compromise his principles.
(c) Roark likes Wynand but hates his newspaper.
(d) It is the only way Roark can now even see Dominique.

3. What horrifies Dominique a month after the Wynand house is finished?
(a) Wynand invites Roark to spend the night and he accepts.
(b) Wynand invites Roark to spend the night and he rejects the invitation.
(c) Wynand tells Dominique that Roark must never be invited in.
(d) Wynand hates the house and wants to move.

4. Why is Peter unhappy in his marriage?
(a) Dominique always compares him to Roark.
(b) Dominique will not talk to him except at parties.
(c) Dominique still refuses to sleep with him.
(d) Dominique is compliant and agrees with anything he says.

5. Although Wynand actually does love Dominique, what is more important to him in their relationship?
(a) That she is so different from him.
(b) That their marriage is romantic.
(c) That she is so influential in society.
(d) The fact that he owns her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dominique compare the success of Ike's play with the destruction of Roark's temple?

2. What is Dominique's name at the end of the novel?

3. After Dominique returns from Reno, where are she and Wynand married?

4. Who visits Peter after he goes into seclusion?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the high price Wynand puts on Peter getting the Stoneridge Homes commission.

3. Discuss how Roark's Monadnock Valley Resort is in opposition to everything Toohey stands for.

4. Unlike Roark whose drive is centered on self-control and perfecting his work, Wynand is driven by revenge and breaking people who have wronged him. How does he try to dominate Roark and with what result?

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

7. When Roark goes to meet with Wynand about building his house, he goes to the "Banner" planning to reject the commission. Describe how and why the meeting changes Roark's mind.

8. At the end of the novel, Dominique experiences a number of emotions while looking at the Wynand Building. What significance do these moments have to the story?

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

10. 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?

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