Atlas Shrugged Study Guide

1. What is Dagny Taggart's job?

• Vice-President in Charge of Operation
• Chief Operating Officer
• President
• Vice President of Finance

2. For what occasion is Lillian planning a party in Chapter 2?

• Hank's mother's birthday
• Hank and Lillian's wedding
• Hank and Lillian's wedding anniversary
• Philip Reardon's birthday

3. What is the Friends of Global Progress?

• A church group
• A lobbying organization
• A charity favored by Philip Reardon
• A worker's union

4. Why don't the railway men in Chapter 1 immediately follow Dagny's orders?

• They cannot hear her
• They don't know who she is
• They cannot understand English
• They dislike taking orders from a woman

5. Why is Rand's philosophy not often written about?

• Objectivism is not fully accepted by scholars as philosophy
• Ayn Rand's books were not published in English
• Ayn Rand's books were not popular
• Objectivism was considered communism

6. What is Rand's philosophy called?

• Neo-Platonism
• Communism
• Subjectivism
• Objectivism

7. Who was Alissa Rosenbaum?

• Ayn Rand's biographer
• Ayn Rand's nom de plume
• Ayn Rand's daughter
• Ayn Rand's birth name

8. What is the family business of the Taggarts?

• Steel production
• Railway
• Politics
• Oil wildcatting

9. Of what material is the bracelet Hank gives Lillian in Chapter 2?

• Copper
• Reardon Metal
• Reardon Steel
• Gold

10. What color is Rearden Metal?

• Blue-green
• Grey
• Black
• Green