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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term that Avis gives to the sense of impending conflict in Chapter 5?
(a) Adoration.
(b) Agnosticism.
(c) Adumbration.
(d) Admiration.

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

3. Against what did London's socialist ideals exert tension or experience conflict with?
(a) Fascist experience.
(b) Capitalist experience.
(c) Socialist experience.
(d) Marxist experience.

4. To whom did Avis create the manuscript in tribute of?
(a) Her dead husband.
(b) Her dead father.
(c) Her dead brother.
(d) Her dead mother.

5. In what principle does Everhard prove that the group is no different from the group they resent in Chapter 7?
(a) Socialist belief.
(b) Desire for profit.
(c) Anarchist violence.
(d) Proletarian leanings.

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

7. Who does Everhard question that the intellectual class really supports?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Working class.
(c) Anarchists.
(d) Brothers.

8. What does Avis say that her life, along with Everhard and others gets sucked into in Chapter 9?
(a) A rally.
(b) A war.
(c) A demonstration.
(d) A vortex.

9. Who is the only person that succeeds in arguing against Everhard in Chapter 4?
(a) Madison.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Wickson.
(d) Carson.

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

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

12. Who was Avis surprised to see at one of her father's social events?
(a) Everhard.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Her father.

13. For how long was the manuscript hidden?
(a) 10 centuries.
(b) 7 centuries.
(c) 12 centuries.
(d) 2 centuries.

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

15. What is the economic and philosophic theory that humanity should work together for the good of all humanity?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the anti-revolutionary movement change in Chapter 9?

2. What does Everhard reveal the truth about to Avis in Chapter 4?

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

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

5. The tension between what two opposing interests is the driving force behind the plot of the Iron Heel?

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