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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward and Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who made their money off of the workers?
(a) Capitalists.
(b) Proletariats.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Business owners.

2. What was secretly published during the three centuries of the Iron Heel?
(a) Everhard's books.
(b) Avis' calligraphic reports.
(c) Dr. Cunningham's manuscripts.
(d) Jackson's letters.

3. What did London profit from according to the contemporary author in his Introduction?
(a) Some of the drawbacks in society.
(b) Some of his popular seminars.
(c) Some of the observations of reporters.
(d) Some of the sales of his previous books.

4. What did the intellectual class love to hear the sound of in Chapter 1 according to Avis?
(a) The music they composed.
(b) Their own voices.
(c) The national anthem.
(d) The songs of their fathers.

5. What does Avis call Everhard?
(a) Her trouble.
(b) Her eagle.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her nemesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What circumstances in London's life that gave rise to his creation of the book?

2. Where was the manuscript hidden?

3. What is the nickname that Everhard gives to the intellectual class?

4. Against what is it necessary to have strength to prevent it from grinding "us down and walk[ing] upon our faces - from coming true?"

5. What did the room where the dinner event was held in Chapter 1 consist mainly of?

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