The Fountainhead Quizzes

The Fountainhead Quiz 1

By China Millman · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed October 11, 2008

1 The Fountainhead begins in what year?

1922

1921

1930

1898
2 Part I is named after which character?

Howard Roark

Peter Keating

Henry Cameron

Austen Heller
3 Where does Howard Roark go to relax?

The lake at Stanton

The Dana Building in New York

Mrs. Keating's front porch

The gothic Cathedral at the center of town
4 Mrs. Keating suggests which job to Howard Roark after she learns of his expulsion?

A plumber

A teacher

A salesman

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 Stanton Institute of Technology

The first building Peter Keating designed

Howard Roark's home

A famous European monument
6 The dean tells Roark that he needs to think of this when he designs buildings.

The past

The client

Posterity

Himself
7 Guy Francon says the "three eternal entities" are:

Truth, Love, Beauty

Form, Utility, Material

Art, Architecture, Design

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

Maison Caree

Any school of his choice

The Stanton Institute

The Beaux-Arts
9 Whom does Peter wire on the day of his graduation?

His mother

No one

Guy Francon

Catherine Halsey
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?

Austen Heller

Peter Keating

Mike

Guy Francon
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"?

Henry Cameron

Ellsworth Toohey

Alvah Scarret

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 Parthenon

Ecole Beaux-arts

The Dana Building
15 Which of these is not the nickname of one of the associates at Snyte's firm?

Gothic

Modernistic

Miscellaneous

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

Building houses and public works

Defending political prisoners

Giving to charities

Funding socialist causes
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

more rooms than his neighbors' houses

an imposing facade

all the modern conveniences

integrity
19 What does Dominique Francon tell the social workers at her talk?

the people living in the slums are either lazy or spendthrifts

the rich people who own the buildings are selfish or evil

she will help them raise money to improve the slums

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

Nothing

Freedom

Money

Love
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 promise he will marry her

That he announce their engagement

That he help her leave her uncle's house
22 Who gives Howard Roark his first commission?

Mr. Mundy

Austen Heller

Mr. Nathaniel Janss

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

The Heller House

The Sanborn House

Jimmy Gowan's Gas Station

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

Tudor

Classical

Modern

Gothic
25 Who recommended Howard Roark to Mr. Sanborn?

Peter Keating

Henry Cameron

Austen Heller

John Erik Snyte

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