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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom did Avis create the manuscript in tribute of?
(a) Her dead father.
(b) Her dead brother.
(c) Her dead husband.
(d) Her dead mother.

3. Who does Dr. Cunningham invite to his dinner in Chapter 7?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Everhard.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Avis.

4. What does Avis accuse the group that Everhard talks to of doing in Chapter 4?
(a) Being lazy.
(b) Lying profusely.
(c) Being selfish.
(d) Mismanaging society.

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

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

7. What does Meredith say in a footnote that there are several of in the world?
(a) Anarchists.
(b) Oligarchists.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Socialists.

8. Where will the Bishop go according to the journalists in Chapter 6?
(a) To prison.
(b) On an extended vacation.
(c) On a pilgrimage.
(d) To a concentration camp.

9. 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) Marxists and Fascists.
(d) Proletariats and socialists.

10. What does Avis realize she was complicit in doing by Chapter 3?
(a) Punishing her father.
(b) Imprisoning Everhard.
(c) Perpetuating the situation.
(d) Betraying the Bishop.

11. What is based on the economic and philosophic principle that financial profit and reward and accumulation are the rightful reward of those with the passion and the drive to pursue them?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

12. Who protests the treatment of workers at the risk of being discharged?
(a) Dr. Cunningham.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Everhard.

13. Who does the Bishop say has drifted from Christ's teaching of compassion?
(a) Oligarchy and Anarchists.
(b) His family and friends.
(c) Avis and Everhard.
(d) Society, government, and the church.

14. Who was London greatly influenced by in his writing?
(a) Judah.
(b) Dryser.
(c) Marx.
(d) Orwell.

15. In what principle does Everhard prove that the group is no different from the group they resent in Chapter 7?
(a) Anarchist violence.
(b) Desire for profit.
(c) Proletarian leanings.
(d) Socialist belief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Avis because of her association with Everhard in Chapter 5?

2. Since the death of his wife, what had Dr. Cunningham become?

3. Where does Jackson live?

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

5. What is the group that attends Dr. Cunningham's dinner in Chapter 7?

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