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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 is the next uprising that Everhard is planning called in Chapter 25?
2. Into what does Avis, Everhard and her father move into in Chapter 12?
3. What is Avis alerted of in the footnotes of the last section of the book?
4. In whose arms does Everhard seek comfort in in Chapter 15?
5. What does Everhard believe will continue to fester and rot despite the art created by the Oligarchy in Chapter 14?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is ironic about Avis' new dwelling after the riots?
2. How did Avis submerge her identity?
3. How does Avis' perspective become distant and objective during the conflict in the city?
4. Describe the appeal of Biblical faith and prophecy to many of the abandoned proletariat.
5. Describe what happens to Avis and Everhard in the end of the novel.
6. Describe the Oligarchy's control of the unions in the United States.
7. What happened to Bishop Morehouse when he began to preach again?
8. Why was Everhard and others sent to prison or executed?
9. Describe the seamstress.
10. Describe the Bishop's new occupation and the reasons for doing so.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the role of women in America in the time period of the Iron Heel when the women like Avis in the stories are living their lives. What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? What freedoms did they have that women of our society today do not have?
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
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.
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