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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 Avis describe as the appliances that helped her submerge her identity in Chapter 19?

2. What does the Oligarchy create involving art in Chapter 14?

3. Into what does Avis, Everhard and her father move into in Chapter 12?

4. What group's members become separated by a higher lifestyle, thus creating a caste system in Chapter 15?

5. What is the person who humbly ministers the poor call his or her work terrified of in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Everhard and others sent to prison or executed?

2. Describe the Bishop's new occupation and the reasons for doing so.

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

4. Describe Wickson's son.

5. Describe the seamstress.

6. Describe the appeal of Biblical faith and prophecy to many of the abandoned proletariat.

7. Describe the Fighting Groups.

8. Describe what happened to Avis after the bombing.

9. What is ironic about Avis' new dwelling after the riots?

10. What happened soon after Everhard got elected to Congress?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe some of the settings for Iron Heel. What is the overall setting? Be sure to include geography, time period and any pertinent popular culture events. Why did the author choose to use these places in Iron Heel?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the concept of capitalism as it is portrayed in the Iron Heel. What aspects of the capitalistic society envisioned by Jack London seem apparent today and what do not? How does the conflict in ideologies between capitalism and socialism that London describes seem evident in today's society in America? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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