The Fountainhead Quizzes

The Fountainhead Quiz 1

1 The Fountainhead begins in what year?
1922

1921

1898

1930
2 Part I is named after which character?
Austen Heller

Peter Keating

Henry Cameron

Howard Roark
3 Where does Howard Roark go to relax?
The Dana Building in New York

The gothic Cathedral at the center of town

The lake at Stanton

Mrs. Keating's front porch
4 Mrs. Keating suggests which job to Howard Roark after she learns of his expulsion?
A teacher

A salesman

A plumber

A builder
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 first building Peter Keating designed

A famous European monument

The Stanton Institute of Technology

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

Posterity

The past

Himself
7 Guy Francon says the "three eternal entities" are:
Truth, Love, Beauty

Art, Architecture, Design

Form, Utility, Material

Utility, Beauty, Integrity
8 Peter Keating wins a four-year scholarship to which school?
Any school of his choice

The Stanton Institute

The Beaux-Arts

Maison Caree
9 Whom does Peter wire on the day of his graduation?
Catherine Halsey

His mother

Guy Francon

No one
10 Peter Keating thinks Catherine's uncle's home is
shabby

tasteful

luxurious

slovenly
11 Who calls Howard Roark the best friend he will ever have?
Guy Francon

Austen Heller

Peter Keating

Mike
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

Alvah Scarret

Henry Cameron

Guy Francon
13 What does Mike call Howard Roark?
Roark

The Electrician

Red

The Architect
14 Roark is fired by Guy Francon over a dispute about a design that is supposed to be similar to which building?
The Stanton Institute of Technology

The Dana Building

The Parthenon

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

Elizabethan

Modernistic

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

Funding socialist causes

Building houses and public works

Giving to charities
17 Where is Peter Keating introduced to Dominique Francon?
A party at the Holcombe mansion

A restaurant in Manhattan

A party at Alvah Scarret's home

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

all the modern conveniences

more rooms than his neighbors' houses

an imposing facade
19 What does Dominique Francon tell the social workers at her talk?
the people living in the slums are either lazy or spendthrifts

she will help them raise money to improve the slums

the rich people who own the buildings are selfish or evil

alcohol is the ultimate cause of poverty in New York
20 According to Dominique, what is the "only desire one can really permit oneself"?
Money

Nothing

Love

Freedom
21 What does Catherine ask of Peter when she comes to his home late at night?
That he announce their engagement

That he help her leave her uncle's house

That he promise he will marry her

That they get married the next day
22 Who gives Howard Roark his first commission?
Mr. Sanborn

Austen Heller

Mr. Nathaniel Janss

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

Henry Cameron's Office

Jimmy Gowan's Gas Station

The Sanborn House
24 Mrs. Wilmot asks Roark to build her a house in which style?
Gothic

Classical

Modern

Tudor
25 Who recommended Howard Roark to Mr. Sanborn?
John Erik Snyte

Henry Cameron

Austen Heller

Peter Keating

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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