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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the intellectual class love to hear the sound of in Chapter 1 according to Avis?
(a) The songs of their fathers.
(b) The music they composed.
(c) Their own voices.
(d) The national anthem.

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

4. Where does Jackson live?
(a) An underground tavern.
(b) A prostitution brothel.
(c) A mob cartel.
(d) A rented, slum-like area by the lake.

5. What happens to Avis because of her association with Everhard in Chapter 5?
(a) Being heralded as a prophet.
(b) Being chosen by some friends.
(c) Being ridiculed by some friends.
(d) Being avoided by some friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jackson's living quarters typical of?

2. Who does Dr. Cunningham prod to speak at the dinner event at his house?

3. Who is being treated as a martyr because of sympathy for the poor in Chapter 5?

4. Who is the only person that succeeds in arguing against Everhard in Chapter 4?

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

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