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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since the death of his wife, what had Dr. Cunningham become?
(a) A dinner party sociologist.
(b) A hard drinker.
(c) A recluse.
(d) A demanding professor.

2. What does Wickson offer Everhard in Chapter 6?
(a) A car.
(b) A peace offering.
(c) A position in the army.
(d) A job.

3. What does the person who Avis sees at her home tell her that he has given up in order to not compromise his ideals?
(a) Family.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Sex.

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

5. Who does Avis become preoccupied with to the point of obsession?
(a) Everhard.
(b) Dr. Cunningham.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Jackson.

6. 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) Socialists and economists.
(d) Marxists and Fascists.

7. What are the forces against which London struggled as an individual and against which the revolutionaries struggle in his book?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Capitalism.

8. Who is the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction?
(a) George Orwell.
(b) Theodore Dryser.
(c) Jack London.
(d) H. Bruce Franklin.

9. What does the Iron Heel also discuss as a method of self-preservation?
(a) Ability to make fire.
(b) Ability to work.
(c) Fearfulness.
(d) Self-righteousness.

10. Who is Avis surprised to see at her house when she returns from visiting the armless peddler?
(a) Everhard.
(b) Carson.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Jackson.

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

12. What happens to Avis because of her association with Everhard in Chapter 5?
(a) Being avoided by some friends.
(b) Being chosen by some friends.
(c) Being heralded as a prophet.
(d) Being ridiculed by some friends.

13. In socialist theory and practice, who were entitled to more than what they were given in wages?
(a) Workers.
(b) Capitalists.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Business owners.

14. How does the anti-revolutionary movement change in Chapter 9?
(a) It becomes peaceful.
(b) It becomes violent.
(c) It dies out.
(d) It grows in popularity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Avis call Everhard?

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

3. What did the intellectual class love to hear the sound of in Chapter 1 according to Avis?

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

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

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