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Ayn Rand

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1. Who is International 4-8818?

(A) The Golden One's father

(B) A member of the World Council of Scholars

(D) ndOne of the screamers at the Home of the Students

2. Where does Equality 7-2521 write the beginning part of the novella?

(A) In a cave

(B) In a tunnel

(D) On the street

3. What does the Golden One do for a living?

(A) She is a scholar

(B) She is a street sweeper

(D) She is a peasant

4. Why do the members of the World Council of Scholars reject the lightbulb?

(A) Because they are afraid of it

(B) Because the bulb doesn't work

(D) Because the bulb is too bright

5. Why does Equality 7-2521 decide to offer the World Council of Scholars the lightbulb?

(A) He wants to help his brothers

(B) He wants the World Council of Scholars to forgive him for not telling the Home Council where he had been

(D) He wants to barter the lightbulb for a date with the Golden One

6. Where does Equality 7-2521 meet the Golden One?

(A) In the Palace of Mating

(B) At the World Council of Scholars

(D) At the Home of Students

7. What word doesn't the Golden One know until the end of the novella?

(A) “You”

(B) “Them”

(D) “I”

8. What does Equality 7-2521 do for a living, officially?

(A) He sweeps the streets

(B) He invents things

(D) He fights for equality

9. Who is Prometheus?

(A) The Roman god of fire

(B) The Golden One

(D) The god of the underworld

10. At the end of the novella, Equality 7-2521 does not plan to do which of the following?

(A) Kill Collective 0-0009

(B) Save International 4-8818

(D) Raise his son as a man

11. The first time they meet, what does Equality 7-2521 say to the Golden One?

(A) “What is your name?”

(B) “Dearest one . . .”

(D) Nothing

12. What does Equality 7-2521 believe is the most important concept known to man?

(A) Light

(B) Ego

(D) Silence

13. Why does Equality 7-2521 break out of the Palace of Corrective Detention?

(A) The World Council is meeting

(B) He is being tortured

(D) He wants to work on his inventions

14. When does the story take place?

(A) 1984

(B) 2015

(D) The year is unspecified

15. How does Equality 7-2521 escape the Palace of Corrective Detention?

(A) He threatens not to give the World Council the lightbulb

(B) He tunnels out

(D) He kicks the door down

16. Where does the story take place?

(A) New York

(B) Poland

(D) The location is unspecified

17. What is the name of Ayn Rand's philosophy?

(A) Objectivism

(B) Subjectivism

(D) Socialism

18. Equality 7-2521 discovers which of the following?

(A) Lightning

(B) Electricity

(D) Greek manuscripts

19. Why don't the students talk to each other?

(A) They don't have anything to say

(B) They are not allowed

(D) They know they already agree

20. Who built the house in which Equality 7-2521 and the Golden One live at the end of the novella?

(A) The Homebuilders

(B) The Golden One

(D) Men from the Unmentionable Times

21. Why does Equality 7-2521 get sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention?

(A) For refusing to tell the Home Council where he was one night

(B) For inventing the lightbulb

(D) For drinking out of the wrong water fountain

22. How does Equality 7-2521 discover electricity?

(A) In a thunderstorm

(B) By sticking his finger in a socket

(D) The Golden One tells him about it

23. Of whom does Equality 7-2521 consider himself a disciple?

(A) The Golden One

(B) Jesus Christ

(D) The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word

24. Where does Equality 7-2521 go when he is exiled?

(A) The tunnel

(B) The Palace of Corrective Detention

(D) His new house

25. What is the most evil word in the language (according to Rand)?

(A) “I”

(B) “You”

(D) “They”

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