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

2. Who protests the treatment of workers at the risk of being discharged?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Dr. Cunningham.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Jackson.

3. Who was Avis surprised to see at one of her father's social events?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Her father.
(d) Everhard.

4. In what principle does Everhard prove that the group is no different from the group they resent in Chapter 7?
(a) Proletarian leanings.
(b) Anarchist violence.
(c) Desire for profit.
(d) Socialist belief.

5. Since the death of his wife, what had Dr. Cunningham become?
(a) A recluse.
(b) A hard drinker.
(c) A demanding professor.
(d) A dinner party sociologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner angry at in Chapter 7?

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

3. What does Wickson offer Everhard in Chapter 6?

4. After the failure of what did idealism suffer damage according to Meredith?

5. Who does Everhard say is responsible for the plight of the armless peddler?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the contemporary author H. Bruce Franklin describe about London?

2. Describe the men in the room at Avis' father's dinner party apart from Everhard.

3. Describe Cunningham.

4. Why does Meredith say that the manuscript cannot be taken fully seriously?

5. Why does Wickhard offer Everhard a job?

6. What does Everhard predict about the Bishop that comes true?

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

8. Describe Avis' actions to uncover the truth about Jackson.

9. Describe the impending conflict Avis begins to experience in Chapter 6.

10. Describe Avis in relationship to the manuscript's creation and storage.

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