The Fountainhead Quizzes

The Fountainhead Quiz 1

1 The Fountainhead begins in what year?
1930

1898

1921

1922
2 Part I is named after which character?
Howard Roark

Peter Keating

Henry Cameron

Austen Heller
3 Where does Howard Roark go to relax?
Mrs. Keating's front porch

The gothic Cathedral at the center of town

The Dana Building in New York

The lake at Stanton
4 Mrs. Keating suggests which job to Howard Roark after she learns of his expulsion?
A builder

A plumber

A teacher

A salesman
5 "The fortress was eminently suited to its purpose, with stout, brick walls, a few slits wide enough for sentries ..." This passage describes which building?
The Stanton Institute of Technology

The first building Peter Keating designed

A famous European monument

Howard Roark's home
6 The dean tells Roark that he needs to think of this when he designs buildings.
Posterity

The past

The client

Himself
7 Guy Francon says the "three eternal entities" are:
Art, Architecture, Design

Utility, Beauty, Integrity

Truth, Love, Beauty

Form, Utility, Material
8 Peter Keating wins a four-year scholarship to which school?
The Stanton Institute

The Beaux-Arts

Maison Caree

Any school of his choice
9 Whom does Peter wire on the day of his graduation?
Catherine Halsey

Guy Francon

No one

His mother
10 Peter Keating thinks Catherine's uncle's home is
tasteful

luxurious

slovenly

shabby
11 Who calls Howard Roark the best friend he will ever have?
Mike

Austen Heller

Guy Francon

Peter Keating
12 Who writes that architects should "abandon their selfish quest for individual glory and dedicate themselves to the embodiment of the mood of their people"?
Ellsworth Toohey

Guy Francon

Henry Cameron

Alvah Scarret
13 What does Mike call Howard Roark?
Roark

Red

The Architect

The Electrician
14 Roark is fired by Guy Francon over a dispute about a design that is supposed to be similar to which building?
The Parthenon

The Dana Building

The Stanton Institute of Technology

Ecole Beaux-arts
15 Which of these is not the nickname of one of the associates at Snyte's firm?
Modernistic

Miscellaneous

Gothic

Elizabethan
16 How does Austen Heller spend most of his money?
Defending political prisoners

Funding socialist causes

Giving to charities

Building houses and public works
17 Where is Peter Keating introduced to Dominique Francon?
A restaurant in Manhattan

A party at Alvah Scarret's home

A party at the Holcombe mansion

Guy Francon's office
18 Austen Heller loves the house Roark designs him because it has
integrity

all the modern conveniences

an imposing facade

more rooms than his neighbors' houses
19 What does Dominique Francon tell the social workers at her talk?
alcohol is the ultimate cause of poverty in New York

the rich people who own the buildings are selfish or evil

she will help them raise money to improve the slums

the people living in the slums are either lazy or spendthrifts
20 According to Dominique, what is the "only desire one can really permit oneself"?
Nothing

Love

Freedom

Money
21 What does Catherine ask of Peter when she comes to his home late at night?
That they get married the next day

That he help her leave her uncle's house

That he announce their engagement

That he promise he will marry her
22 Who gives Howard Roark his first commission?
Mr. Nathaniel Janss

Austen Heller

Mr. Mundy

Mr. Sanborn
23 What is the "Booby Hatch"?
The Sanborn House

The Heller House

Jimmy Gowan's Gas Station

Henry Cameron's Office
24 Mrs. Wilmot asks Roark to build her a house in which style?
Modern

Tudor

Classical

Gothic
25 Who recommended Howard Roark to Mr. Sanborn?
Peter Keating

Austen Heller

John Erik Snyte

Henry Cameron

In 1925, Ellsworth Toohey publishes his architecture book, Sermons in Stone. What does he say about Cameron?

Toohey says that Henry Cameron deserved oblivion.... to be forgotten.

Asked by Kayla B #405930

Answered by jill d #170087 on 3/13/2017 12:29 AM

One of the main lessons in this chapter is the concept of beauty, and the fact that most people's concept of beauty is what they been conditioned to believe is beautiful.

Asked by Linda B #698518

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/9/2017 3:35 PM

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Where in the Fountainhead does it mention that Dominique bought destroyed her favorite statue by throwing it down the stairs?

In my copy of The Fountainhead, Dominique talks about destroying the statue on Page 104, Chapter 12.

"I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below."
"Are you totally crazy? Why?"
"So that no one else would ever see it."

Asked by Kaylynn D #640302

Answered by jill d #170087 on 4/20/2017 1:49 AM

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