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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Everhard say that the journalists will say about the Bishop in Chapter 6?
(a) He was amazing.
(b) He is a liar.
(c) He is defeated.
(d) He was unwell.

4. What is the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?
(a) Workers.
(b) Small capitalists.
(c) Big business.
(d) Socialists.

5. What does Jackson's living quarters typical of?
(a) His lifestyle.
(b) His working class.
(c) His attitude.
(d) His cultural group.

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

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

8. The tension between what two opposing interests is the driving force behind the plot of the Iron Heel?
(a) Workers and capitalists.
(b) Proletariats and socialists.
(c) Marxists and Fascists.
(d) Socialists and economists.

9. Who does the group that Everhard speak to in Chapter 4 comprise?
(a) Rebelling factions.
(b) Peaceful anarchists.
(c) Millionaire capitalists.
(d) Working socialists.

10. Where was the manuscript hidden?
(a) In a tavern.
(b) In a safe.
(c) Ancient oak tree.
(d) In a cave.

11. To whom does the Bishop makes his presentation in Chapter 6?
(a) Anarchists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Philanthropists.
(d) Oligarchists.

12. What does Everhard reveal the truth about to Avis in Chapter 4?
(a) The rich and the Oligarchy.
(b) The workers and the Socialists.
(c) The rebels and the Anarchists.
(d) The poor and the working classes.

13. Why did people support the decision against Jackson?
(a) Because they were cowards.
(b) Because they were afraid of overheating.
(c) Because they feared losing support of their families.
(d) Because they were afraid of the Oligarchy.

14. What does Avis realize she was complicit in doing by Chapter 3?
(a) Punishing her father.
(b) Betraying the Bishop.
(c) Perpetuating the situation.
(d) Imprisoning Everhard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Avis become preoccupied with to the point of obsession?

2. Who is the armless peddler?

3. Who made their money off of the workers?

4. What did London profit from according to the contemporary author in his Introduction?

5. Who does Avis find that she falls in love with?

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