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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. How does Toohey make his move to take over the "Banner"?
(a) By buying more of the paper's stock.
(b) By recalling the paper that had his article in it.
(c) By leaving quietly after he is fired.
(d) By writing an article denouncing Roark.

2. How does Dominique get publicity that gets Wynand to divorce her?
(a) She takes a job at a rival newspaper.
(b) She notifies the police that she is staying with Roark and a valuable ring has been stolen.
(c) She reveals that she was the model who posed nude for Mallory's statue.
(d) She publicly files for divorce from Wynand.

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

4. What special honor does Wynand give to Dominique?
(a) He puts her statue in the lobby of the Banner.
(b) He shows her his private art gallery.
(c) He buys her a diamond necklace.
(d) He makes her his personal assistant at the newspaper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dominique feel about the Wynand building?

2. What common trait in both Wynand and Roark does Dominique notice?

3. Who helps Roark blow up the Cortlandt Homes project?

4. Wynand once threatened to kill Roark and Dominique if they got together. Why does he not do it?

5. What is the irony of Roark's going to see Wynand about designing his house?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the danger in Wynand's new found moral attitude after he comes under the influence of Roark?

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

8. 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?

9. Contrast Peter's situation when he goes to get help once again with Roark's willingness to take on the Cortlandt Homes project.

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

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