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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 3 "Anti-Greed".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is planning to build diesel engines for Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) Eddie Willers
(b) Dwight Sanders
(c) Francisco d'Anconia
(d) Henry Rearden

2. What is the obvious symbolism of the Project X machine that is so destructive.
(a) The noise of a rock concert.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) The power of industrialists to destroy the world.
(d) The need for greater and greater weapons.

3. How did Hank know that their affair was over before Dagny told him.
(a) He heard something different in her voice on the radio.
(b) During the radio show she had only used past tense.
(c) John Galt came and told him.
(d) Francisco sent him a telegram.

4. What is the result of the government's decision to divert coal to the People's Republic of England?
(a) Project X has to be put on hold.
(b) Rearden Metal wins the contract to ship the steel.
(c) People have to wait for needed food to arrive.
(d) Produce from the West coast is held up for 3 days and everything spoils.

5. What sarcastic comment does Dagny make to James Taggart and Wesley Mouch?
(a) Got what you've been asking for, all these years, gentlemen?
(b) What's the point in running a business if there is no profit?
(c) You tell me how to run a train on bad rails.
(d) Which one of you is planning to rob a bank?

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents Taggart Transcontinental from meeting Rearden's deadline for delivering steel?

2. What show of support does Dagny get from employees of Taggart Transcontinental?

3. Where does Dagny plan to start the first run of the John Galt Line?

4. Hank realizes that their affair is over. What ended it?

5. When the Taggart board and the Washington influence peddlers meet, what is the irony of their meeting place?

(see the answer key)

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