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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7 "The Moratorium on Brains".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Danneskjtzld contrasts himself with what legendary hero?
(a) Zorro
(b) Achilles
(c) Prometheus
(d) Robin Hood

2. What is so unusual about the cigarette Dagny gets from Dr. Hugh Akston?
(a) It is marked with a gold dollar sign.
(b) It cannot be lit.
(c) It is made of unusual tobacco.
(d) It is rolled in colored paper.

3. What is Ayn Rand's objection to majority rule as put forth by the National Alliance of Railroads?
(a) It puts decision making in the hands of uneducted people.
(b) It is not a true socialist idea.
(c) It does not go far enough to protect everyone.
(d) It can be used to stifle competition, capitalism, and individualism.

4. Why can Dagny not learn the name of the third student at Patrick Henry University according to Dr. Akston?
(a) He went to the university under an assumed name.
(b) She will only learn it when he chooses to tell her himself.
(c) Nobody really knows who he is.
(d) The school records were in a fire and his records were lost.

5. Who offers to help Dagny solve the problem of the rotting wooden bridge on her Colorado line?
(a) Hank Rearden
(b) Claude Slagenhop
(c) Phillip Rearden
(d) Francisco d'Anconia

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rearden say the government needed to win against him.

2. What is Dagny's reaction to Eugene Lawson's claim that his motives were pure at Twentieth Century Motors because he never made a profit?

3. Rand uses the failure of Twentieth Century Motors to make what point about socialism?

4. How does Rand let the reader know that there is a connection between Francisco and Danneskjtzld?

5. Why will Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company not complete Dagny's order for switches and signals on the Colorado line?

(see the answer key)

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