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

2. In socialist theory and practice, who were entitled to more than what they were given in wages?
(a) Business owners.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Workers.
(d) Capitalists.

3. What are the forces against which London struggled as an individual and against which the revolutionaries struggle in his book?
(a) Facism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Marxism.

4. Who was London greatly influenced by in his writing?
(a) Marx.
(b) Orwell.
(c) Judah.
(d) Dryser.

5. Who made their money off of the workers?
(a) Capitalists.
(b) Proletariats.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Business owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leadership does Avis admire about Everhard?

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

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

4. Who was the scientist responsible for many of the society-defining discoveries of the era?

5. What did the intellectual class love to hear the sound of in Chapter 1 according to Avis?

(see the answer key)

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