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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dr. Cunningham prod to speak at the dinner event at his house?
(a) Everhard.
(b) Carson.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Avis.

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

3. What did Everhard elaborate on the relationship between?
(a) Rebels and communists.
(b) Working and capitalist classes.
(c) Peddlers and peddling.
(d) Socialists and revolutionists.

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

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

6. What happened during Jackson's trial in the name of family security?
(a) Cowardice and manipulation.
(b) Corruption and self-denial.
(c) Selfishness and greed.
(d) Violence and self-deprecation.

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

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

9. What is the name of Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?
(a) Profit and Loss.
(b) Games and Gander.
(c) Love and Death.
(d) Fools and Wise Men.

10. What does Meredith say in a footnote that there are several of in the world?
(a) Anarchists.
(b) Leaders.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Oligarchists.

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

12. Where does Jackson live?
(a) An underground tavern.
(b) A mob cartel.
(c) A rented, slum-like area by the lake.
(d) A prostitution brothel.

13. Who does Avis interview that ran away when faced with uncomfortable truths?
(a) Oligarchy leader.
(b) Revolutionist leader.
(c) Company lawyer.
(d) Family lawyer.

14. What does Avis do for the Bishop's speech in Chapter 6?
(a) Edit it.
(b) Write it.
(c) Transcribe it.
(d) Hide it.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the group that Everhard speak to in Chapter 4 comprise?

2. What are the two circumstances of time in discussion in the Iron Heel?

3. What does the Iron Heel also discuss as a method of self-preservation?

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

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

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