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Mind: Atlas Shrugged Part One Chapters VI-X

Mind: <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> Part One Chapters VI-XThe PROPEL™ Ayn Rand Meetup® groups will discuss these Objectivist Inquiry™ questions for Atlas Shrugged Part One Chapters VI-X by Ayn Rand:

Cognitive Questions

  • Why does Dagny Taggart change the name of the Rio Norte Line to the John Galt Line?
  • Why does Dagny Taggart conduct a press conference for the first run of the John Galt Line?
  • Why do Henry Rearden and Dagny Taggart commence an affair?
  • What led to the fall of the Twentieth Century Motor Company?
  • What led to the decline of the descendants of Jed Starnes?
  • Why did Midas Mulligan dissolve his successful bank and vanish?
  • Why does Ellis Wyatt abandon his oil fields in a "scorched earth" manner?

    Normative Questions

  • Did you agree with Dagny Taggart's decision to make the allegedly high risk investment in the John Galt Line?
  • Evaluate the propriety of the affair between Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden.
  • Did you find the portrayal of the fall of the Twentieth Century Motor Company credible?
  • Did you agree with the decision of Midas Mulligan to dissolve his bank and thus to deprive Lee Hunsacker and his associates of collecting the lawfully won judgment of their suit?
  • Did you agree with Ellis Wyatt not merely abandoning his oil fields but setting them ablaze?
  • In what ways did this novel influence your values?


  • Added by Luke Setzer
    on 9/12, 11:49am

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