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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what principle does Everhard prove that the group is no different from the group they resent in Chapter 7?

2. What does Everhard say that the journalists will say about the Bishop in Chapter 6?

3. In socialist theory and practice, who were entitled to more than what they were given in wages?

4. What does Jackson's living quarters typical of?

5. What are the forces against which London struggled as an individual and against which the revolutionaries struggle in his book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mr. Wickhard's argument and why Everhard agrees with him.

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

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

4. Describe the essential conflict of the Iron Heel.

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

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

7. Why is Bishop Morehouse becoming a martyr of sorts?

8. Why does Wickhard offer Everhard a job?

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

10. What does Everhard argue effectively about at the dinner party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jack London is a master at dramatic devices. Choose an example of symbolism, metaphors and irony, briefly describe them and identify the technique which they embody.

Essay Topic 2

The author uses more than one iteration on the motif of life-death-life. Identify at least two motifs about life-death-life in Iron Heel. Then cite an example to support each answer.

Essay Topic 3

London espouses a radical approach to work and employment that would alter the structure of society. He describes the worker in Iron Heel as a proletariat like Marxian philosophy who is rebelling against the Oligarchy. Describe the worker in Iron Heel. Do you think this is realistic and characteristic of today? Do you think the issues that London discusses are still relevant today and if so, in what ways? Discuss and describe.

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