The Fountainhead Quizzes

The Fountainhead Quiz 1

1 The Fountainhead begins in what year?
1930

1922

1921

1898
2 Part I is named after which character?
Henry Cameron

Austen Heller

Peter Keating

Howard Roark
3 Where does Howard Roark go to relax?
The gothic Cathedral at the center of town

The lake at Stanton

Mrs. Keating's front porch

The Dana Building in New York
4 Mrs. Keating suggests which job to Howard Roark after she learns of his expulsion?
A builder

A salesman

A plumber

A teacher
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

The Stanton Institute of Technology

A famous European monument

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

Himself

Posterity

The past
7 Guy Francon says the "three eternal entities" are:
Utility, Beauty, Integrity

Form, Utility, Material

Truth, Love, Beauty

Art, Architecture, Design
8 Peter Keating wins a four-year scholarship to which school?
Any school of his choice

Maison Caree

The Beaux-Arts

The Stanton Institute
9 Whom does Peter wire on the day of his graduation?
Catherine Halsey

Guy Francon

His mother

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

shabby

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"?
Guy Francon

Alvah Scarret

Henry Cameron

Ellsworth Toohey
13 What does Mike call Howard Roark?
The Architect

The Electrician

Red

Roark
14 Roark is fired by Guy Francon over a dispute about a design that is supposed to be similar to which building?
Ecole Beaux-arts

The Parthenon

The Dana Building

The Stanton Institute of Technology
15 Which of these is not the nickname of one of the associates at Snyte's firm?
Gothic

Miscellaneous

Modernistic

Elizabethan
16 How does Austen Heller spend most of his money?
Building houses and public works

Defending political prisoners

Funding socialist causes

Giving to charities
17 Where is Peter Keating introduced to Dominique Francon?
Guy Francon's office

A party at Alvah Scarret's home

A restaurant in Manhattan

A party at the Holcombe mansion
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 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

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"?
Freedom

Nothing

Love

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. Mundy

Austen Heller

Mr. Nathaniel Janss

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

Henry Cameron's Office

The Sanborn House

Jimmy Gowan's Gas Station
24 Mrs. Wilmot asks Roark to build her a house in which style?
Modern

Tudor

Gothic

Classical
25 Who recommended Howard Roark to Mr. Sanborn?
Henry Cameron

John Erik Snyte

Peter Keating

Austen Heller

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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