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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 10 "The Sign of the Dollar".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mouch's new job after he resigns as Rearden's Washington lobbyist?
(a) Assistant Editor of
(b) Assistant Coordinator of the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources
(c) Secretary of the Interior
(d) Vice President of Taggart Transcontinental

2. When Dagny demands that Francisco tell her why Ellis Wyatt will be wiped out in Colorado, why does he refuse to tell her?
(a) He says he wants to take over the oil industry.
(b) He says only John Galt knows for sure.
(c) He says she is not ready to hear the answer.
(d) He says she already knows.

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

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

5. How does Dr. Ferris explain to Rearden the many laws that are being passed by the State?
(a) He says the lawmakers do not really know what they are doing.
(b) He says that Rearden just doesn't understand what the laws are saying.
(c) He says that laws that don't work will eventually be repealed.
(d) There is no other way to rule men than to pass laws that cannot be observed, enforced or interpreted

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is almost single handedly responsible for opening up trade in Colorado?

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

3. How does Bertram Scudder, editor of "The Future" magazine, characterize Hank Rearden?

4. What is the coincidence of Dagny stopping the conductor from throwing a vagrant off the train she is taking to see Quentin Daniels?

5. At the Thanksgiving dinner, why does Lillian urge Hank not to fight the lawsuit?

(see the answer key)

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