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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Katie show up at the apartment of Peter and his mother?
(a) She wanted to break her engagement to Peter.
(b) She had a sudden fear that something was wrong.
(c) She wants to warn Peter about Dominique.
(d) She was overly fond of Peter's mother.

2. What happens when Roark and Dominique meet up at the Holcombe party?
(a) Dominique grabs Peter and kisses him.
(b) They both pretend they have never met.
(c) Dominique becomes upset and leaves the party.
(d) Roark takes her back to his place.

3. What does Peter learn from Francon?
(a) The need to avoid Ellsworth Toomey
(b) The social skills needed for success
(c) How to become an independent thinker
(d) How to improve his designs

4. How was Roark able to reopen his architecture business?
(a) He got the Enright contract.
(b) Dominique secretly supported him.
(c) Peter loaned him the money.
(d) He inherited money from Heyer.

5. What does Peter think of Roark's design for the Enright house?
(a) He thinks it does not look like a building.
(b) He thinks his next house will look like that.
(c) He thinks it is Roark's greatest work.
(d) He thinks Enright will reward Roark.

6. How does Dominique contrive to get Roark to her father's house in Connecticut?
(a) She threatens to have him fired from the quarry.
(b) She damages the fireplace in her bedroom and asks him to repair it.
(c) She fakes falling off her horse near the quarry.
(d) She invites him to a candlelight dinner.

7. Who is the only person to see through Dominique's constant criticism of Roark's work in her column?
(a) Ellsworth Toohey
(b) Waynand
(c) Katie
(d) Peter Keating

8. How does Peter go about getting rid of Heyer?
(a) He plays up his friendship with the old man.
(b) He informs Francon that Heyer is embezzling from the company.
(c) He confronts him with a shady business deal Heyer once made.
(d) He puts medication in Heyer's coffee that causes him to have a stroke.

9. Why does the Dean consider Roark to be insubordinate?
(a) Roark prefers swimming to paying attention in class.
(b) He thinks Roark's buildings are unsafe.
(c) He fears that Roark might get his job.
(d) Roark refuses to accept only the classical styles that the school teaches.

10. Why does Dominique agree to testify against Roark when he is sued by Stoddard?
(a) She secretly wants to protect him from the pain of rejection.
(b) She wants the publicity as the model for Mallory's statue.
(c) She is blackmailed to do so by Toohey.
(d) She thinks this will finally give her the upper hand in their relationship.

11. What do people say about Roark's work after the opening of the Enright house?
(a) It is a work of genius.
(b) It is the new direction all architecture will follow.
(c) It is cold and inhuman.
(d) It is an improvement over the classical style.

12. What is Roark's attitude after being expelled from school?
(a) He believes he will never be an architect.
(b) He thinks he was wrong to criticize the classical style.
(c) He thinks being an architect will be more difficult but not impossible.
(d) He is ashamed of himself for being so stupid.

13. Unable to get work as an architect, what does Roark do to earn a living?
(a) He gets a job at the bank.
(b) He goes to work for Mike in a quarry.
(c) He decides to marry a wealthy widow.
(d) He takes a job as a short order cook.

14. How does Dominique get her information to write an article about the slums?
(a) She goes to live in the slums.
(b) She confronts the owners of the slums.
(c) She interviews people who once lived in the slums.
(d) She has a photographer go and take pictures of the slums.

15. Why does Henry Cameron retire?
(a) His business is a failure.
(b) He loses the use of his eyes.
(c) He thinks Roark is taking business from him.
(d) He has enough money to live on for the rest of his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of Heyer's death?

2. What is the real meaning behind Dominique's critique on the Enright house?

3. What is Lois Cook's criteria for her new house?

4. What is the unexpected coincidence involving Katie Halsey?

5. What was the result of Dominique's articles on the slums?

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