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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. What was the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner angry at in Chapter 7?

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

3. Who manipulated the trial in favor of the company instead of Jackson?

4. What does the person who Avis sees at her home tell her that he has given up in order to not compromise his ideals?

5. Who did Everhard find complicit in the capitalist system?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is it important to be vigilant in society in the Introduction?

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

4. Describe Everhard's effect on Avis.

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

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

7. Describe Avis' interaction with the company lawyer.

8. Describe Avis' actions to uncover the truth about Jackson.

9. Describe the Philomaths.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of Avis. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 2

Dr. Cunningham and the Bishop are two important characters that interact and experience significant suffering.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Dr. Cunningham had a direct influence upon? What are some events that Bishop had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support to the group? Which one is stronger and why? What happens to each character?

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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