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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Avis accuse the group that Everhard talks to of doing in Chapter 4?
(a) Being lazy.
(b) Being selfish.
(c) Mismanaging society.
(d) Lying profusely.

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

3. Who was London greatly influenced by in his writing?
(a) Dryser.
(b) Judah.
(c) Orwell.
(d) Marx.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who does the Bishop say has drifted from Christ's teaching of compassion?
(a) Avis and Everhard.
(b) Oligarchy and Anarchists.
(c) Society, government, and the church.
(d) His family and friends.

12. Who was the scientist responsible for many of the society-defining discoveries of the era?
(a) Avis' father.
(b) Avis' uncle.
(c) Avis' brother.
(d) Avis' lover.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What circumstances in London's life that gave rise to his creation of the book?

2. What does Wickson offer Everhard in Chapter 6?

3. What leadership does Avis admire about Everhard?

4. What is the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?

5. What does Avis realize she was complicit in doing by Chapter 3?

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