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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did speaker after speaker do to Everhard during his speech in Chapter 4?
(a) Challenge him.
(b) Interrupt him.
(c) Submit to him.
(d) Defeat him.

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

3. What does Everhard consider Wickson's offer in Chapter 6?
(a) An admission of guilt.
(b) A lovely gift.
(c) A bribe.
(d) A truce.

4. Who could be fired for challenging the opinion or story of a newspaper's corporate owners?
(a) An artist.
(b) A journalist.
(c) An intern.
(d) A writing assistant.

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

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

7. When was the Iron Heel published?
(a) Early 1900s.
(b) Early 1920s.
(c) Early 1940s.
(d) Early 1880s.

8. 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) Fascism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

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

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

11. What does the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction think of London's writing?
(a) Biased.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Skewed.
(d) Emotional.

12. Who did Everhard find complicit in the capitalist system?
(a) Church.
(b) Dr. Cunningham.
(c) Revolutionists.
(d) Socialists.

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

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

15. On what ticket does Everhard run for Congress in in Chapter 7?
(a) Anarchist.
(b) Oligarchist.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Communist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who protests the treatment of workers at the risk of being discharged?

2. In socialist theory and practice, who were entitled to more than what they were given in wages?

3. What was the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner angry at in Chapter 7?

4. What surprisingly has come into effect that the book predicted?

5. Who was out of place from the beginning of the dinner event described in Chapter 1?

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