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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 does the person who Avis sees at her home challenge her to look into?
2. What was the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner angry at in Chapter 7?
3. What did Everhard elaborate on the relationship between?
4. Who protests the treatment of workers at the risk of being discharged?
5. Who does the group that Everhard speak to in Chapter 4 comprise?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Avis' actions to uncover the truth about Jackson.
2. Describe Jackson.
3. Describe Everhard's speech to the Philomaths.
4. What does the Iron Heel reveal about workers according to Franklin?
5. Describe the men in the room at Avis' father's dinner party apart from Everhard.
6. What does Everhard argue effectively about at the dinner party?
7. Describe Mr. Wickhard's argument and why Everhard agrees with him.
8. Why does Meredith say that the manuscript cannot be taken fully seriously?
9. Describe Everhard's effect on Avis.
10. Why is it important to be vigilant in society in the Introduction?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Iron Heel is particularly effective in conveying meaning through powerful imagery. Powerful imagery to establish connections in the minds of readers with the story's characters and plot. Imagery is the picture we form in our minds of the story we read. It can involve, visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinetic and kinesthetic. The author uses these imagery to translate words into a visual story that we can see and participate in within our minds. Describe the use of imagery in this dystopian novel.
Essay Topic 3
Iron Heel is written primarily in the first-person point of view of Avis. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the third-persona and omniscient perspective? Explain.
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