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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the armless peddler?
(a) Dr. Cunningham.
(b) Everhard.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Bishop.

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

3. Who does Avis find that she falls in love with?
(a) Dr. Cunningham.
(b) Everhard.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Bishop.

4. Who does Everhard say is responsible for the plight of the armless peddler?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Anarchists.
(c) They are.
(d) Oligarchy.

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

6. Who does Everhard challenge to investigate the case of the armless peddler?
(a) Avis.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Dr. Cunningham.
(d) Jackson.

7. What leadership does Avis admire about Everhard?
(a) Socialist worker movement.
(b) Underground revolutionary movement.
(c) Revolutionary socialist movement.
(d) Anarchist rebellion.

8. Who does Avis believe that she will marry by Chapter 4?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Dr. Cunningham.

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

10. Where will the Bishop go according to the journalists in Chapter 6?
(a) To a concentration camp.
(b) To prison.
(c) On an extended vacation.
(d) On a pilgrimage.

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

12. Who manipulated the trial in favor of the company instead of Jackson?
(a) Jackson's superiors.
(b) Company's lawyers.
(c) Company's leadership.
(d) Jackson's lawyers.

13. Who protests the treatment of workers at the risk of being discharged?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Dr. Cunningham.

14. What was secretly published during the three centuries of the Iron Heel?
(a) Jackson's letters.
(b) Avis' calligraphic reports.
(c) Dr. Cunningham's manuscripts.
(d) Everhard's books.

15. Who tells Avis that Jackson was entitled to compensation?
(a) His lawyers and superiors.
(b) His brothers and sisters.
(c) His friends and acquaintances.
(d) His wife and children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the Bishop grows more insistent, what happens in Chapter 6?

3. What does Avis accuse the group that Everhard talks to of doing in Chapter 4?

4. What does Wickson offer Everhard in Chapter 6?

5. To whom does the Bishop makes his presentation in Chapter 6?

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