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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the room where the dinner event was held in Chapter 1 consist mainly of?
(a) Dancers and strippers.
(b) Underweight and stylish men.
(c) Students and poor professors.
(d) Overweight and over dressed men.

2. Who is the armless peddler?
(a) Dr. Cunningham.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Bishop.

3. Who is being treated as a martyr because of sympathy for the poor in Chapter 5?
(a) Everhard.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Avis.

4. What did London profit from according to the contemporary author in his Introduction?
(a) Some of his popular seminars.
(b) Some of the observations of reporters.
(c) Some of the drawbacks in society.
(d) Some of the sales of his previous books.

5. What is the term that Avis gives to the sense of impending conflict in Chapter 5?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Adoration.
(c) Adumbration.
(d) Agnosticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spoke to Avis about the legal and financial rightness of their positions?

2. What does Avis do for the Bishop's speech in Chapter 6?

3. What is the name of Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?

4. Who tells Avis that Jackson was entitled to compensation?

5. To whom does the Bishop makes his presentation in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Avis' interaction with the company lawyer.

2. What tension did London experience in his own life that is reflected in the Iron Heel?

3. Describe the essential conflict of the Iron Heel.

4. What does Everhard argue effectively about at the dinner party?

5. Describe Jackson.

6. Describe Meredith's comments on the Oligarchy.

7. Describe the journalist's interaction with Avis about the Jackson case.

8. What does the Iron Heel reveal about workers according to Franklin?

9. Describe Everhard's reasons for not having a family.

10. Why is it important to be vigilant in society in the Introduction?

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