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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. Who does Everhard talk to when he contemplates how the Oligarchy will reassert control over the country in Chapter 14?
(a) A leader of a union.
(b) A Fascist dictator.
(c) A Communist spy.
(d) A Socialist puppet.

2. When the Oligarchy gets word of the impending revolt, where do they plan a preventive strike in Chapter 23?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Ann Arbor.
(c) New York.
(d) Detroit.

3. Where does the person who is preaching get sent to for his sermon in Chapter 12?
(a) A prison for the handicapped.
(b) A hospital for the physically inept.
(c) A detention facility.
(d) An asylum for the insane.

4. Who receives potatoes that Avis witnesses in Chapter 12?
(a) Dancer.
(b) Worker.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Seamstress.

5. What organizations have loyal revolutionists willing to participate at any cost in Chapter 22?
(a) Oligarchs and Patriachs.
(b) Grangers and Mariners.
(c) Mercuraries and Favored Unions.
(d) Proletarians and Oligarchs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Avis witness being thrown into a police convoy in Chapter 24?

2. What do the workers in both countries do that stop working for a week in Chapter 13?

3. What do many of the abandoned proletariat turn to find meaning in Chapter 15?

4. What are the soldiers wearing that attended the speech in Chapter 16?

5. What is the name of the violent, secret side of the Revolution in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the three oligarchies Avis says were created through the favored unions.

2. Describe the effect Cunningham's book has on socialist publications and the revolution.

3. How is the truth about the bombing ultimately discovered?

4. How does Avis' perspective become distant and objective during the conflict in the city?

5. What does Avis witness in the city that alarms her?

6. Describe the effect of the workers' strike.

7. Describe what happened when Everhard was giving a speech in defense of a bill attended by many soldiers in scarlet livery.

8. Describe the Oligarchy's control of the unions in the United States.

9. Describe Wickson's son.

10. Describe the seamstress.

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