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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who Avis sees at her home tell her that he has given up in order to not compromise his ideals?
(a) Money.
(b) Family.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

2. Who manipulated the trial in favor of the company instead of Jackson?
(a) Jackson's superiors.
(b) Company's lawyers.
(c) Jackson's lawyers.
(d) Company's leadership.

3. In socialist theory and practice, who were entitled to more than what they were given in wages?
(a) Business owners.
(b) Workers.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Capitalists.

4. Against what did London's socialist ideals exert tension or experience conflict with?
(a) Capitalist experience.
(b) Fascist experience.
(c) Socialist experience.
(d) Marxist experience.

5. The tension between what two opposing interests is the driving force behind the plot of the Iron Heel?
(a) Workers and capitalists.
(b) Socialists and economists.
(c) Proletariats and socialists.
(d) Marxists and Fascists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprisingly has come into effect that the book predicted?

2. Who is the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction?

3. What happened during Jackson's trial in the name of family security?

4. Who does Everhard say is responsible for the plight of the armless peddler?

5. What are the forces against which London struggled as an individual and against which the revolutionaries struggle in his book?

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