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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 4 "Anti-Life".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Dagny to resign from Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) Eddie's resignation
(b) The closing of the John Galt Line
(c) Francisco's telephone call
(d) Directive 10-289

2. What, according to Rand, is worse than taking someone's life?
(a) Refusing to help the poor.
(b) Taking someone's life's work.
(c) Having an affair with a married person.
(d) Working only for the joy of creation and invention.

3. What show of support does Dagny get from employees of Taggart Transcontinental?
(a) They give a banquet in her honor.
(b) They all buy stock in the John Galt Line.
(c) They vote her in as President of Taggart Transcontinental.
(d) They line the route with guns to protect the train.

4. 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) Don't tell my dress maker.
(c) That's quiet all right. I'm the man.
(d) You're welcome to the job.

5. How is Project X, a weapon of mass murder, define Rand's view of communism?
(a) It shows how powerful communism is and there is no way to defeat it.
(b) It takes away material things and destroys the world that capitalism has built.
(c) It defines the limits of a Cold War.
(d) It shows that absolute power is good for the people in general.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Fifth Concerto"?

2. Quentin Daniels is hired to reconstruct the revolutionary motor. What is Quentin's greatest desire.

3. What is the last thing passengers see on Kip Chalmers' train as they enter the tunnel?

4. What does Dagny now realize about Francisco?

5. Why can Dagny not learn the name of the third student at Patrick Henry University according to Dr. Akston?

(see the answer key)

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