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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roark discover about Cortlandt Homes when he returns for the sailing trip with Wynand?
(a) His designs were faulty.
(b) The plans were changed from his design.
(c) Peter decided to change the plans.
(d) The project is just as he designed it.

2. How does Toohey react when Wynand forbids any mention of Roark in the "Banner"?
(a) Toohey goes out and gets drunk.
(b) Toohey goes into a rage.
(c) Toohey plans to write a book attacking Roark.
(d) Toohey smiles.

3. What is the gift Toohey sends to Gail Wynand?
(a) A copy of his book.
(b) A plaque for community service.
(c) A painting of the Banner building.
(d) The Mallory statue.

4. What does Peter do when he cannot figure out how to design the Cortlandt Homes project?
(a) He gives up.
(b) He desides to get Toohey's help.
(c) Once again, he goes to Roark.
(d) He turns it over to his draftsman.

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

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

7. What is it that Peter does not understand, has never understood, about Roark?
(a) That Roark's finished work is the only thing important to him.
(b) That Roark is as much a fake as he is.
(c) That Roark always holds out for more money.
(d) That Roark just wants to be controversial and difficult.

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

9. What finally persuades Wynand to meet Dominique?
(a) He wants to meet the model for the statue.
(b) He thinks Toohey will not give him the sculpture if he does not agree to meet her.
(c) Toohey threatens to resign if he will not meet with her.
(d) He learns that Dominique is married.

10. After Dominique returns from Reno, where are she and Wynand married?
(a) On board Wynand's yacht.
(b) In the Banner building.
(c) At city hall.
(d) At the Noyes-Belmont Hotel.

11. What becomes of Toohey?
(a) He goes to jail for attempting to kill Roark.
(b) He has a heart attack and dies.
(c) He starts all over again at another newspaper.
(d) He commits suicide.

12. How does Dominique discover that Roark will be the architect for her new house?
(a) Toohey calls to tell her.
(b) She has a dream that tells her Roark will re-enter her life.
(c) She reads about it in the newspaper.
(d) She recognizes his style when she sees the drawings.

13. When does Peter become the head of the architecture firm?
(a) When Francon retires.
(b) When Toohey buys an interest in the firm.
(c) When Dominique decides not to divorce him.
(d) When Neil Durant becomes a partner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toohey demand be done with Roark?

2. Who visits Peter after he goes into seclusion?

3. Why, according to Roark, was Peter destroyed?

4. What do Roark and Wynand agree on as they look at the land Wynand bought for his house?

5. How does Roark define "selflessness"?

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