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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 5 "Their Brothers' Keepers".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dagny deal with the failure of communications on the Taggart Transcontinental when copper wire breaks and cannot be quickly replaced?
(a) She reverts to manual switching and lantern signals.
(b) She goes to James to find out what to do.
(c) She turns the problem over to Cuffy Meigs.
(d) She stops all trains until the lines can be repaired.

2. At home and in despair, what music is Dagny listening to when she puts down her head and cries?
(a) Tchaikovski's Symphony Pathetique
(b) Halley's opera,
(c) Halley's Fourth Concerto
(d) Cry Me a River

3. What is Dagny's reply to Cherryl's comment that she is "the woman in the Taggart family"?
(a) What am I? Chopped liver?
(b) You're welcome to the job.
(c) That's quiet all right. I'm the man.
(d) Don't tell my dress maker.

4. Quentin Daniels is hired to reconstruct the revolutionary motor. What is Quentin's greatest desire.
(a) To improve the motor.
(b) To prove the the motor will not work.
(c) To create a motor from his own concept.
(d) To meet the man who conceived of the idea of the motor.

5. James and Cherryl begin their unlikely romance. Where does James meet her?
(a) Friends introduce them.
(b) In a dime store.
(c) At the train station.
(d) At a cocktail party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Francisco when he took over d'Anconia Copper Mines?

3. What literary device does Rand use to show the end of Eddie's dream of one day marrying Dagny.

4. Why does Cherryl go to visit Dagny?

5. What news does James Taggart receive that Dagny had predicted?

(see the answer key)

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