The Iron Heel | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Introduction

1. What are the two circumstances of time in discussion in the Iron Heel?

Socialist revolution and Utopian future.

2. What does the Iron Heel also discuss as a method of self-preservation?

Self-righteousness.

3. Who is the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction?

H. Bruce Franklin.

4. What are the forces against which London struggled as an individual and against which the revolutionaries struggle in his book?

Capitalism.

5. What does the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction think of London's writing?

Accurate.

6. When was the Iron Heel published?

Early 1900s.

7. What surprisingly has come into effect that the book predicted?

Causes and effects of the workers' movement.

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

Personal and creative.

9. Against what did London's socialist ideals exert tension or experience conflict with?