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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. In what way is Peter Keating better equipped for getting new commissions than Roark?
(a) Peter has better social skills.
(b) Roark has too many social obligations.
(c) Roark's fancy office makes people think he is too expensive.
(d) Peter is actually a better architect.

2. Why does Cameron eventually hire Roark?
(a) Roark agrees that he has a lot to learn.
(b) Roark will bring public acceptance to Cameron's firm.
(c) He thinks he can intimidate Roark.
(d) Roark was the top student at Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology.

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

4. What are Roark's criteria for designing a new building?
(a) Materials, site, and purpose
(b) Social mobility, fame, and wealth
(c) Beauty, size, and familiarity
(d) Bricks, location, and cost

5. What event marked the beginning of Roark's own architecture firm?
(a) When Peter secretly put up the money.
(b) Heller's check written out to Howard Roark, Architect.
(c) The death of Henry Cameron.
(d) Snyte offering him a full partnership.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Dean consider Roark to be insubordinate?

2. When Peter feels the stress of the strike, where does he go with Katie?

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

4. What spoils Peter's joy at winning the "most beautiful building" contest?

5. Where does Peter finally get to meet Dominique?

Short Essay Questions

1. Dominique and Roark meet as strangers without names. Like the moth to the flame, Dominique is drawn back again and again to watch Roark at the quarry. Discuss the significance of Roark's domination of Dominique.

2. At the beginning of the novel, Howard Roark stands naked on a granite cliff preparing to dive into the waves below. Describe how this scene sets the stage for the entire novel.

3. Dominique writes that the Enright house is a "mockery to all the structures of the city." Most people believe that she is panning the building. What is her real meaning?

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

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

6. How do the conflicting passions of Roark and Dominique result in an act of violence?

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

8. Discuss the irony of Peter going to Roark for help with his Cosmo-Slotnik competition design.

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

10. Explain how Roark's getting his hands dirty at a building site wins over the admiration of the electrician, Mike.

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