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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rearden's suggestion to Dagny about giving in to the state?
(a) They must hold out as long as they can before complying with the State.
(b) They must find John Galt.
(c) They must find ways to compromise with the State.
(d) They must destroy their businesses before they let that happen.

2. What does Rearden sell off after the bill banning people from owning multiple businesses is passed?
(a) Train engines and coal mines
(b) Copper mines and coal mines
(c) Iron mines and jewelry manufacturing
(d) Copper mines and freight companies

3. Why will Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company not complete Dagny's order for switches and signals on the Colorado line?
(a) Too many people are opposed to Rearden metal.
(b) They made a deal with Jim Taggart not to supply the equipment.
(c) They believe she cannot pay for the items.
(d) They cannot get the steel they need.

4. When Dagny stops at a newsstand buy cigarettes, what is the last thing the vendor says to her?
(a) Oh well, you need to stop smoking anyway.
(b) Oh well, we'll have your cigarettes tomorrow.
(c) Oh well, who is John Galt?
(d) Oh well, next time I'll save you a paper.

5. Why does Dagny have to wait to get in to see Dannager when she goes to see him before his trial?
(a) There is a mysterious man in his office.
(b) Dannager really does not want to see Dagny.
(c) Dannager blames Dagny for his legal problems.
(d) Dagny came without an appointment.

6. Who is the childhood friend of Jim and Dagny who now works for them?
(a) John Galt
(b) Eddie Willers
(c) Hank Rearden
(d) James Ellis Wyatt

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

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

9. What is "the chain"?
(a) A bracelet made from the first pouring of Rearden metal.
(b) A means of restraining railroad workers.
(c) The weakest link in Rearden's new metal.
(d) The imprisonment of Hank's family.

10. When Dr. Stadler questions why the man who was developing the revolutionary motor was working in a factory research lab, what is Dagny's reply?
(a) He probably liked living on this earth.
(b) Maybe he couldn't find another place.
(c) He probably came from somewhere around here.
(d) Maybe the Science Institute turned him down.

11. What does Rearden say the government needed to win against him.
(a) His account books.
(b) His civil rights.
(c) His cooperation.
(d) His denial of any wrong doing.

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

13. When Dagny demands to be made Vice President in Charge of Operations, what reason does Jim give her for opposing the idea?
(a) Dagny, you're a woman.
(b) Dagny, you'll get married and leave.
(c) Dagny, father never intended for you to work at Taggert.
(d) Dagny, you don't know anything about railroads.

14. What is Owen Kellogg's reply to Dagny when she asks him why he is resigning from Taggert Railway?
(a) You can't pay me what I'm worth.
(b) I'm going into business for myself.
(c) Railroads are a thing of the past.
(d) Who is John Galt?

15. Where does Dagny plan to start the first run of the John Galt Line?
(a) Denver, Colorado
(b) New York, NY
(c) Cheyenne, Wyoming
(d) Washington, D. C.

Short Answer Questions

1. At home and in despair, what music is Dagny listening to when she puts down her head and cries?

2. What is the lie that James Taggart tells the Board of Taggert Railroad?

3. What does Francisco d'Anconia say the socialists will use to replace "the aristocracy of money"?

4. What does Dagny object to about the San Sebastian Line?

5. What is the image Francisco d'Anconia has in the public eye?

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