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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 is the nickname that Everhard gives to the intellectual class?
(a) Worrymongers.
(b) Trust betrayers.
(c) Philanderers.
(d) Metaphysicians.

2. What are the two circumstances of time in discussion in the Iron Heel?
(a) Marxist present and Fascist future.
(b) Socialist revolution and Utopian future.
(c) Anarchical present and Tyrannical future.
(d) Utopian present and Dystopian future.

3. What does the person at Avis' home come to return?
(a) Ammunition supplies.
(b) Tins and cans.
(c) Borrowed books.
(d) Borrowed umbrella.

4. Who spoke to Avis about the legal and financial rightness of their positions?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Plumbers.
(c) Cultured wives.
(d) Iron workers.

5. Who is being treated as a martyr because of sympathy for the poor in Chapter 5?
(a) Avis.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Everhard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Everhard challenge to investigate the case of the armless peddler?

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

3. What does Everhard say revolutionaries will be willing to do in Chapter 5?

4. What does the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction think of London's writing?

5. Who did Everhard find complicit in the capitalist system?

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