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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the person who Avis sees at her home tell her that he has given up in order to not compromise his ideals?
(a) Sex.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Family.

3. 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.

4. What happened during Jackson's trial in the name of family security?
(a) Violence and self-deprecation.
(b) Corruption and self-denial.
(c) Cowardice and manipulation.
(d) Selfishness and greed.

5. What circumstances in London's life that gave rise to his creation of the book?
(a) Political and social.
(b) Personal and creative.
(c) Artistic and evolutionary.
(d) Economic and theoretical.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Everhard question that the intellectual class really supports?

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

4. Who was London greatly influenced by in his writing?

5. What is based on the economic and philosophic principle that financial profit and reward and accumulation are the rightful reward of those with the passion and the drive to pursue them?

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