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

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

3. 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?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Fascism.

4. What does the person that challenges Everhard say will happen to revolutionaries in Chapter 4?
(a) Defeated by popular vote.
(b) Be moved to camps.
(c) Crushed by violence.
(d) Win in a landslide election.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person at Avis' home come to return?

2. Who is Avis surprised to see at her house when she returns from visiting the armless peddler?

3. What does the person who Avis sees at her home tell her that he has given up in order to not compromise his ideals?

4. For how long was the manuscript hidden?

5. When was the Iron Heel published?

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