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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the contemporary author that offers a perspective in the Introduction think of London's writing?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Skewed.
(c) Biased.
(d) Accurate.

3. What does Wickson offer Everhard in Chapter 6?
(a) A car.
(b) A job.
(c) A position in the army.
(d) A peace offering.

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

5. Who was Avis surprised to see at one of her father's social events?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Her father.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Bishop.

6. Who does Dr. Cunningham prod to speak at the dinner event at his house?
(a) Avis.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Carson.
(d) Everhard.

7. Who does Everhard challenge to investigate the case of the armless peddler?
(a) Dr. Cunningham.
(b) Avis.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Jackson.

8. What did the room where the dinner event was held in Chapter 1 consist mainly of?
(a) Dancers and strippers.
(b) Overweight and over dressed men.
(c) Students and poor professors.
(d) Underweight and stylish men.

9. What does Everhard reveal the truth about to Avis in Chapter 4?
(a) The rich and the Oligarchy.
(b) The poor and the working classes.
(c) The workers and the Socialists.
(d) The rebels and the Anarchists.

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

11. On what ticket does Everhard run for Congress in in Chapter 7?
(a) Communist.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Oligarchist.
(d) Anarchist.

12. Who is the only person that succeeds in arguing against Everhard in Chapter 4?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Wickson.
(c) Carson.
(d) Madison.

13. Who was the scientist responsible for many of the society-defining discoveries of the era?
(a) Avis' brother.
(b) Avis' uncle.
(c) Avis' father.
(d) Avis' lover.

14. Who spoke to Avis about the legal and financial rightness of their positions?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Iron workers.
(c) Cultured wives.
(d) Plumbers.

15. What is the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?
(a) Small capitalists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Big business.
(d) Workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who Avis sees at her home challenge her to look into?

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

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

4. What does the person that challenges Everhard say will happen to revolutionaries in Chapter 4?

5. Who does the Bishop say has drifted from Christ's teaching of compassion?

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