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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Avis because of her association with Everhard in Chapter 5?
(a) Being avoided by some friends.
(b) Being ridiculed by some friends.
(c) Being chosen by some friends.
(d) Being heralded as a prophet.

2. 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) Love.
(b) Family.
(c) Sex.
(d) Money.

3. In what sectors is the group that Everhard speaks to in Chapter 4 leaders in?
(a) Business, politics, and governance.
(b) Natural sciences and psychology.
(c) Art, philosophy, and natural sciences.
(d) Business, art, and economics.

4. Who does Everhard question that the intellectual class really supports?
(a) Anarchists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Working class.

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

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

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

8. What does the person that challenges Everhard say will happen to revolutionaries in Chapter 4?
(a) Defeated by popular vote.
(b) Be moved to camps.
(c) Crushed by violence.
(d) Win in a landslide election.

9. Since the death of his wife, what had Dr. Cunningham become?
(a) A demanding professor.
(b) A recluse.
(c) A hard drinker.
(d) A dinner party sociologist.

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

11. What leadership does Avis admire about Everhard?
(a) Underground revolutionary movement.
(b) Socialist worker movement.
(c) Revolutionary socialist movement.
(d) Anarchist rebellion.

12. What did Everhard elaborate on the relationship between?
(a) Working and capitalist classes.
(b) Socialists and revolutionists.
(c) Peddlers and peddling.
(d) Rebels and communists.

13. What surprisingly has come into effect that the book predicted?
(a) Technological advancement.
(b) Food and agricultural changes.
(c) Disenfranchisement of the working poor.
(d) Causes and effects of the workers' movement.

14. How does the anti-revolutionary movement change in Chapter 9?
(a) It dies out.
(b) It becomes peaceful.
(c) It grows in popularity.
(d) It becomes violent.

15. What did speaker after speaker do to Everhard during his speech in Chapter 4?
(a) Defeat him.
(b) Interrupt him.
(c) Submit to him.
(d) Challenge him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?

2. What are the two circumstances of time in discussion in the Iron Heel?

3. What was the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner angry at in Chapter 7?

4. What does the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction think of London's writing?

5. What did London profit from according to the contemporary author in his Introduction?

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