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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long was the manuscript hidden?
(a) 12 centuries.
(b) 2 centuries.
(c) 10 centuries.
(d) 7 centuries.

2. What was secretly published during the three centuries of the Iron Heel?
(a) Dr. Cunningham's manuscripts.
(b) Avis' calligraphic reports.
(c) Everhard's books.
(d) Jackson's letters.

3. What surprisingly has come into effect that the book predicted?
(a) Technological advancement.
(b) Causes and effects of the workers' movement.
(c) Food and agricultural changes.
(d) Disenfranchisement of the working poor.

4. Against what is it necessary to have strength to prevent it from grinding "us down and walk[ing] upon our faces - from coming true?"
(a) Iron Heel.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Death.
(d) Communism.

5. What are the two circumstances of time in discussion in the Iron Heel?
(a) Marxist present and Fascist future.
(b) Anarchical present and Tyrannical future.
(c) Socialist revolution and Utopian future.
(d) Utopian present and Dystopian future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Avis encounter in the city that has an expression of horror all the time in Chapter 4?

2. Who does Dr. Cunningham prod to speak at the dinner event at his house?

3. What circumstances in London's life that gave rise to his creation of the book?

4. Who does Avis find that she falls in love with?

5. What did London profit from according to the contemporary author in his Introduction?

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