Pat Logan's second appearance was as the engineer on the frozen train that stranded Dagny on her trip out west in the aftermath of the tunnel disaster.

What did Hugh Akston serve Dagny when she found him at his diner?

Her revelation was that she had an affair with Hank Rearden, and basically that she was proud of it. I don't know what the accusation was, unless it was that Rearden gave up his metal because the government threatened to make the affair public. Rearden realized it was over because she spoke of their love and affair in the past tense.

is this where Hank wants to speak with Lillian about a divorce? If so, I think he did not want Dagny to know until he had spoken with Lillian. It was between the two of them

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Here is a bit of trivia (or more truthfully, a mystery I haven't been able to solve!) I hope someone can answer. In Part 1, Chap. 7 (P 171 of a 1st ed.) Hank lies to Dagny about returning to NY. Why does he lie? I can speculate at this point, but hope one of you can put your finger on an explicit reason given later in the book.

If you are good at solving this one, I have a couple of other mysteries as well.

Dagny appears on Bertram Scudder's radio program after her return from the Gulch.

1. What big revelation and accusation did she make?

2. Hank Rearden, after listening to that, realizes and accepts that he is not the love of Dagny's life, and that she found that love wherever she disappeared to. How does he deduce this?

Adoration. Consider Dagny's impression of Jeff Allen, and her impression of Hugh Akston before he even give her his name.

"my choice is between who do I fear the most". That says so much, ibecame, and I can relate

I just went back and re-read that section. I know exactly how you feel.
The looters have finally found a fool proof way to raid Retirement Plans and lucky me, my plan is the test case. I find myself being ordered to comply with a "Court Appointed Receiver" but it directly conflicts with Internal Revenue who is supposed to be overseeing retirement plans. My choice is between who do I fear the most.

Ok, jbrenner, I bet nobody can fool you with a tricky question on a test!

He defied the law of gravity by flying a plane heavily overloaded with gold.

Describe the precise titles of the country's chief executive and of the legislative branch, as both novel and movie use them.

Bonus: tell whether the legislative branch has one chamber or two, and how many seats in it/each.

When John Galt first begins to speak, after jamming the airwaves to stop Mister Thompson from speaking, exactly three people in that scene recognize him right away. Name them and describe their attitudes.

"It is said that catastrophes are a matter of pure chance. And there were those who would have said the passengers of the Comet were not guilty or responsible for the thing that happened to them."

List in order the representative passengers, one in each railcar, that the novel then describes. Give their exact reservation, as "Bedroom X", "Roomette Y", "Seat Z," or whatever.

Bonus question: name the recent reviewer of Atlas Shrugged who, by his own admission, declined to re-read the rest of the novel after re-reading that scene. Also name the earlier reviewer and what infamous line the more-recent reviewer said that scene reminded him of.

Midas Mulligan has several enterprises in Galt's Gulch. But exactly one of these is called a Company.

1. Which enterprise was that?

2.. Why did he call it a company?

3. Did anyone in addition to him own a piece of that enterprise? And if so, who?

In the book Atlas Shrugged, what opinion does the writer have about the working man?

Hint: It is one of a) Despise, or b) Adore.
Give examples of passages that justify your answer.

List the articles of jewelry Dagny Taggart took with her when she finally fled the world and joined the rescue operation. Include where she acquired each.

As a bonus: list whatever other valuable document(s) and/or wall hanging(s) Dagny took with her, and where she got them from.

Ragnar Danneskjöld boasts to John Galt of having defied the law of gravitation. How?

In the novel, Francisco d'Anconia leaves a bold and defiant message to the world on the occasion of his abandoning it forever. What was that message and how did he deliver it? Include a description of the delivery method and how exactly he signed his message.

1. The Taggart Tunnel disaster involves a collision between what two trains inside the Tunnel?

2. In the novel, a breathless radio announcer gives a cause for the Comet abruptly stopping so it could not start again.

2A: What was that cause?

2B: The novel does not identify the passenger involved. But the movie does. Who, in the movie version, stopped the Comet?

3. Novel and movie have the collision occurring in two different ways. What kind of collision took place in the novel version and in the movie version?

Engineer Pat Logan drove the inaugural train on the John Galt Line. Now here's another question right back at you: Pat Logan shows up twice in the narrative. Running that first train on the John Galt LIne was the first time. Where and when did he show up next, even if by rating only a mention?

Engineer Joe Scott took the Comet into the Tunnel with a coal-burning steam locomotive to pull her. Questions right back at you:

1. Identify that engine by number.

2. Name the fireman who accompanied Engineer Scott on that run, and who ended up being the sole survivor.

James Taggart blew the gaffe twice, first with Dagny Taggart and then with Hank Rearden, by saying the exact same thing he expected from each. In two words, tell us that thing--and which, between Dagny and Hank, had the better grasp of the full import of James Taggart's gaffe.

Also one of my favorite parts of the book. As I was reading AS for the second, or maybe third time I was working on my taxes for my LLC which consists of a small farm and some rental properties. I had been struggling with tax code where I had one of three choices. 1) do not claim a deduction, 2) claim deduction A which violated rule X 3) claim deduction B which violated rule Y. I ended up finding another way to claim the deduction (which has since been closed up) that did not violate any tax code, but I could only do under the farm. At the time I was wondering, why in the hell do we have contradictory code in the same tax code, under the same section of tax code?

I then a few days later reached that section of Atlas Shrugged. I would not have believed it, and kinda shrugged it off in previous readings. This time with the struggle I had faced with tax code a few days earlier it really hit me. It has been one of my favorite sections of the book ever since.

Night watchman at the Utah Technical Institute.