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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Family.
(d) Sex.

2. What is the group that Everhard says is the only group that counter using force through a little known law in Chapter 8?
(a) Government associations.
(b) American militia.
(c) Legal groups.
(d) Business owners.

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

4. What is the nickname that Everhard gives to the intellectual class?
(a) Worrymongers.
(b) Trust betrayers.
(c) Metaphysicians.
(d) Philanderers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will the Bishop go according to the journalists in Chapter 6?

2. Against what did London's socialist ideals exert tension or experience conflict with?

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

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

5. When was the Iron Heel published?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Avis' ongoing investigation of Jackson's life circumstances.

2. Describe Everhard's reasons for not having a family.

3. Why does Meredith say that the manuscript cannot be taken fully seriously?

4. What does the contemporary author H. Bruce Franklin describe about London?

5. What is the two-tiered future described in the Iron Heel?

6. Describe the men in the room at Avis' father's dinner party apart from Everhard.

7. Describe the journalist's interaction with Avis about the Jackson case.

8. Describe Jackson.

9. Describe Everhard's speech to the Philomaths.

10. What does the Iron Heel reveal about workers according to Franklin?

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