SparkNotes: The Fountainhead: Quiz

1. Where does Howard Roark stay during his years at Stanton?

(A) A small housing project

(B) The Keating family’s home

(C) The shabbiest dorm building

(D) With his engineering professor

2. Why does Peter Keating choose to go to New York and work for Guy Francon?

(A) Roark suggests he do so

(B) Peter secretly hopes to begin an art career there

(C) Peter’s mother manipulates him into moving

(D) Peter has heard that Guy Francon’s daughter is very beautiful

3. Why does Henry Cameron initially ask Roark to leave his office?

(A) Cameron does not want Roark to suffer at the hands of the world

(B) Roark does not accept anyone else’s authority

(C) Cameron’s firm is bankrupt and he cannot afford Roark

(D) Cameron’s richest client despises Roark

4. What is Roark’s first building?

(A) The Stoddard Temple

(B) The Heller House

(C) The Cosmo-Slotnick Building

(D) The Enright House

5. Why does Roark go work in Connecticut?

(A) He cannot afford to keep his New York office open

(B) He knows that Dominique is spending the summer there

(C) He feels he needs more experience in a workman’s trade to complete his education

(D) Wynand has ensured that no one in the city will hire him

6. Why does Roark send another worker in his place to set the marble stone in Dominique’s fireplace?

(A) He knows that if she sees him again, she will fire him

(B) His friend needs the money more than Roark does

(C) He has received a letter from Roger Enright calling him to New York

(D) He wants to show Dominique that she needs him

7. Why does Dominique criticize the drawings of the Enright House?

(A) She feels the world does not deserve such perfection

(B) She knows it is technically unsound

(C) She thinks it does not have enough character

(D) She is a great admirer of Peter Keating and wishes to help him

8. Why is Gail Wynand’s yacht called I Do?

(A) It is Wynand’s response to every man who ever told him, “You don’t run things around here”

(B) It is an ironic reference to his notorious bachelor life

(C) It is a declaration of Wynand’s affinity with the public will

(D) It is a response to Dominique’s marriage proposal

9. Why does Roark accept the Stoddard commission even though he has serious reservations about it?

(A) Stoddard impresses him

(B) Roark does not want Peter Keating to botch such an incredible project

(C) Toohey has coached Stoddard to say precisely what Roark needs to hear

(D) Roark is nearly bankrupt and needs the commission very badly

10. Why does Stephen Mallory try to kill Ellsworth Toohey?

(A) Because Toohey used his influence to rob Mallory of a commission

(B) Because Mallory understands that Toohey represents a dangerous and malicious kind of cunning

(C) Because Mallory does not want Toohey to interfere with Roark’s career

(D) Because Mallory wishes to go to prison

11. On whose behalf does Dominique craftily testify at the Stoddard Trial?

(A) On Stoddard’s behalf

(B) On Toohey’s behalf

(C) On Mallory’s behalf

(D) She does not testify

12. What is the first thing we see Gail Wynand doing?

(A) Sailing his yacht

(B) Writing a letter to the President

(C) Walking through New York

(D) Holding a gun to his temple

13. Why does Toohey send Wynand the statue of Dominique?

(A) To atone for an earlier offense

(B) To convince Wynand to destroy the model and the sculptor

(C) To rouse Wynand’s interest in Dominique

(D) To improve his public image by adding to Wynand’s famous gallery

14. Why does Mike love Roark?

(A) Because Roark gave him his first electrician’s job

(B) Because Mike admires skill in every form, and Roark is supremely gifted

(C) Because Mike loves all architects

(D) Because Roark stays far away from building sites, giving Mike more freedom to work

15. Why does Dominique suddenly regret her marriage to Gail Wynand and feel sorry for him?

(A) Wynand is nobler than she expected, and she knows that she does not truly love him

(B) She thinks that Roark will punish Wynand

(C) Wynand is a worse scoundrel than she thought, and she feels surprised by him

(D) She feels that he is too subservient to his staff

16. Why is Roark hired to design the Monadnock Valley resort?

(A) Because his brilliant design will mean the homes can be rented at an incredible profit

(B) Because the governing board believes he is the worst architect in the country

(C) Because Toohey suggests him to the board, knowing that the entire project will soon collapse in yet another scandal

(D) Because Austen Heller fights on his behalf

17. How does Roark defend himself at the Stoddard trial?

(A) He submits only photographs of the temple

(B) He agrees to pay the fine but begs the judge to let the building stand as it is

(C) He reads a brief, stunning statement

(D) He appears heavily intoxicated and stands silent

18. How does Dominique change Gail Wynand?

(A) She forces him to face the truth about the society that his paper serves

(B) She teaches him to write architecture columns

(C) She buys him a yacht

(D) She is the first woman he sleeps with

19. What is the Council of American Builders?

(A) An electrician’s union of which Mike is a member

(B) An advocacy group that works on Roark’s behalf

(C) A council of young architects handpicked by Toohey

(D) A radical terrorist group responsible for bombing the Cortlandt complex

20. What does Dominique do after Roark destroys the Cortlandt Homes?

(A) She flees to Cameron’s house in New Jersey

(B) She blames Wynand for the crime

(C) She slashes herself with glass and passes out in her car

(D) She agrees to pay for its reconstruction

21. For the Cortlandt trial, what kind of men does Roark look for when selecting the jury?

(A) Jurors who seem compassionate

(B) Jurors who are demolition experts

(C) A select group of friends and colleagues

(D) The least sympathetic group possible

22. At whom does Roark first look after he is acquitted?

(A) Dominique

(B) Wynand

(C) Mike

(D) Toohey

23. How does Dominique make her affair with Roark public?

(A) She writes and publishes an article in the Banner

(B) She calls the police from his home to report a missing ring

(C) She holds a press conference in the Cord Building

(D) She gets a private detective to take pictures of her with Roark and then sends them to Toohey

24. Why does Wynand hire Roark to design the Wynand Building?

(A) He wants Roark to make the statement he himself could never make

(B) He wants to redeem himself

(C) He wants to win back Dominique

(D) He feels his old building is too cramped

25. What does Roark do after Wynand and the Banner abandon him?

(A) He publicly denounces Wynand

(B) He forgives Wynand in a letter

(C) He blows up the Banner’s offices

(D) He goes to a church to pray