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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lois Cook's criteria for her new house?
(a) It must be the most beautiful house in New York.
(b) It must have at least three floors.
(c) It must be ugly and defy popular ideas of beauty.
(d) It must look like an Italian palace.

2. What does Peter tell Toohey about Roark.
(a) He says that Roark helps him with many of his designs.
(b) He tells him that Roark was kicked out of school.
(c) He tells Toohey to mind his own business.
(d) He denies knowing Roark.

3. What indicates that John Eric Snyte regretted firing Roark?
(a) He wants to please Austen Heller who likes Roark.
(b) He now believes that Roark will become the greatest architect of the day.
(c) He believes he can control Roark if he is working for Snyte's firm.
(d) He tries to lure him back into his firm with an offer of more money.

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

5. Why is Roark dissatisfied at the Snyte firm?
(a) He dislikes designing modern style buildings.
(b) No one wants to build his designs.
(c) He gets credit for other people's work.
(d) His designs are altered by other architects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Dominique disappointed in her relationship with Roark?

2. Why is Roark expelled from the Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology?

3. Although Stoddard wins the lawsuit against Roark, what happens to Dominique?

4. Why does Cameron fire Roark?

5. How does Dominique get her information to write an article about the slums?

Short Essay Questions

1. Identify and explain two events from Toohey's childhood which began a pattern of behavior he uses in adulthood.

2. Peter's lack of integrity comes to light in his efforts to get Claude Stengel's job. How does the method he uses to accomplish his purpose relate to the theme of the book?

3. Discuss the idea of "ownership" in the relationship between Dominique and Roark.

4. Discuss how Rand accuses critics of distorting reality when Peter finally meets Toohey.

5. After being fired from her job, Dominique begins a series of self-punishments. How does Peter Keating come into this picture?

6. Explain why Toohey supports the striking builders and how it fits in with his socialistic ideas.

7. What is meant by the description of the Stoddard temple as being "like a corpse hacked to pieces and reassembled?"

8. Discuss Dominique's idea that beautiful things should not exist in the real world.

9. In 1892, Henry Cameron was the most promising architect of his day, having introduced the idea of the skyscraper. One year later, the popular classical designs of the Columbian Exposition of Chicago ruined Cameron's career. How does Ayn Rand use this to introduce the ideas of individualism versus socialistic dogma?

10. Discuss Rand's use of premonition in chapter 12 when Katie shows up at Peter's apartment.

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