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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward and Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Everhard question that the intellectual class really supports?
(a) Brothers.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Anarchists.
(d) Working class.

2. What does the Iron Heel also discuss as a method of self-preservation?
(a) Ability to make fire.
(b) Fearfulness.
(c) Self-righteousness.
(d) Ability to work.

3. After the failure of what did idealism suffer damage according to Meredith?
(a) Second Revolt.
(b) Third Revolt.
(c) Fourth Revolt.
(d) First Revolt.

4. What does the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction think of London's writing?
(a) Accurate.
(b) Biased.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Skewed.

5. When was the Iron Heel published?
(a) Early 1940s.
(b) Early 1920s.
(c) Early 1900s.
(d) Early 1880s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meredith say in a footnote that there are several of in the world?

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

3. In socialist theory and practice, who were entitled to more than what they were given in wages?

4. What is the nickname that Everhard gives to the intellectual class?

5. What was secretly published during the three centuries of the Iron Heel?

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