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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to help Wynand when the union strikes and there is no staff at the newspaper?
(a) Dominique.
(b) Roark.
(c) Peter.
(d) Toohey.

2. Wynand once threatened to kill Roark and Dominique if they got together. Why does he not do it?
(a) He still likes Roark and does not want to harm him.
(b) He knows he would be the first suspect if they were murdered.
(c) He feels guilty about turning on Roark.
(d) He would rather kill himself.

3. What does Toohey demand be done with Roark?
(a) He wants Roark to make a public apology.
(b) He wants to free Roark.
(c) He wants him executed.
(d) He wants Roark to rebuild using his original plans.

4. What is Toohey's motivation to have Wynand meet Dominique?
(a) He now wants to destroy Peter.
(b) He wants her to get Peter hired to design Wynand's Stoneridge Homes project.
(c) He wants Dominique to divorce Peter and marry Wynand.
(d) He wants Dominique to find out why Roark is a failure.

5. What common trait in both Wynand and Roark does Dominique notice?
(a) They both want people to love them.
(b) They both have the same lack of integrety.
(c) They are both uncomfortable in large crowds.
(d) Neither of them satisfies her sexually.

6. What does Katie feel for Peter when they meet by accident on the street?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Hope.
(c) Anger.
(d) Desire.

7. What condition does Roark place on doing the Cortlandt Homes design?
(a) Nothing can be changed on it.
(b) Peter will have to oversee the construction personally.
(c) No one can see the designs until the project is finished.
(d) Toohey must agree to Roark's involvement.

8. What gives evidence that Toohey intends to take over the "Banner"?
(a) He is secretly supporting the opposition to Wynand.
(b) He starts buying Banner stock.
(c) He encourages Wynand to go on a long honeymoon.
(d) He tries to bring back Dominique.

9. How does Wynand get the last laugh on Toohey.
(a) He buys out the stock holders and shuts down the paper.
(b) He pushes Toohey into the presses, killing him.
(c) He puts Toohey's articles in the sports section.
(d) He rewrites everything Toohey does.

10. Why does Toohey tell a policeman to arrest him?
(a) So he can get the publicity.
(b) To keep him from murdering Wynand.
(c) To protect the guilty.
(d) To protect the innocent.

11. What in the relationship between Roark and Wynand is distressing to Dominique?
(a) She sees that Wynand is secretly out to ruin Roark.
(b) She thinks Roark is not telling Wynand the truth.
(c) She sees that they have a real affinity for each other.
(d) She thinks Roark is finally compromising his art.

12. What underhanded trick do the Aquitania Hotel developers play that backfires on them?
(a) Knowing they were going backrupt, they sold properties anyway.
(b) Hiring Roark so that everyone would think he was responsible for the bankruptcy.
(c) Over-selling the properties by 200% in the hopes they would go bankrupt.
(d) Refusing to pay Roark when the project was late being finished.

13. What happens when a "Banner" reporter interviews Dominique?
(a) It becomes the first reference to the marriage in the press.
(b) Wynand fires the reporter.
(c) Wynand locks Dominique in their penthouse.
(d) Dominique refuses to talk to her.

14. How does Dominique compare the success of Ike's play with the destruction of Roark's temple?
(a) She thinks they were unaffected by the newspaper.
(b) She says they were both great achievements of the Banner.
(c) She thinks the paper dealt fairly with both issues.
(d) She thinks the play is more important than the temple.

15. After looking at the Cortlandt Homes designs, who recognizes immediately that they were drawn by Roark?
(a) Francon and Katie
(b) Mallory and Enright
(c) Toohey and Scarret
(d) Wynand and Dominique

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dominique and Wynand return early from their cruise, what is Peter's concern?

2. Why are Toohey and Scarret worried about the marriage of Dominique and Wynand?

3. What is Roark's commission at the end of the novel?

4. What is Roark's reaction to Peter's request that he design the Cortlandt Homes project for low rent housing?

5. After Dominique returns from Reno, where are she and Wynand married?

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