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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who humbly ministers the poor call his or her work in Chapter 12?
(a) A calling.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Christ's work.
(d) Penitence.

2. What does the group give to the Oligarchy in return for financial and material compensation in Chapter 15?
(a) Health supplies.
(b) Art supplies.
(c) Political support.
(d) Economic support.

3. Where does Avis take refuge in Chapter 18?
(a) Sonoma.
(b) Santa Barbara.
(c) San Marin.
(d) San Francisco.

4. Who are the people of the abyss in Chapter 24?
(a) The Oligarch fools.
(b) The dancing revolutionaries.
(c) The working/poor classes not affiliated with the Favored Unions.
(d) The industrialists of the Mercenaries.

5. Who begins to speak derisively of the Oligarchy at the event in Chapter 17?
(a) Wickson.
(b) Everhard.
(c) Avis.
(d) Bishop.

6. What are the two lives that Avis has lived in Chapter 19?
(a) Proletarian and Oligarchian.
(b) Socialite and socialist.
(c) Anarchist and Communist.
(d) Nazi and anti-Nazi.

7. What does Everhard believe will continue to fester and rot despite the art created by the Oligarchy in Chapter 14?
(a) The control.
(b) The layman.
(c) The abyss.
(d) The torment.

8. Despite running through murderous mobs, taking refuge under piles of dead bodies, and coming near to death herself, what does Avis feel she can do in Chapter 24?
(a) Be emotional and passionate.
(b) Be removed, distant, and objective.
(c) Be cold and calculated.
(d) Be loving and compassionate.

9. When the Oligarchy gets word of the impending revolt, where do they plan a preventive strike in Chapter 23?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Ann Arbor.

10. What event is shrouded in mystery for seven centuries that is mentioned in the last section of the book?
(a) The birth of the new Mercenaries.
(b) The execution of Ernest Everhard.
(c) The massacre of the Oligarchs.
(d) The death of Avis.

11. How does the Oligarchy keep getting in the way of the Revolutionaries in Chapter 14?
(a) Bombing civilian areas.
(b) Seizing ammunition supplies.
(c) Taking control of larger unions.
(d) Blocking citizenship.

12. Who does Avis say unequivocally as not having anything to do with the the scary event at the speech in Chapter 17?
(a) Revolutionists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Oligarchists.
(d) Anarchists.

13. Who ironically owns the area that Avis takes refuge in in Chapter 18?
(a) Wickson.
(b) Everhard.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Carlson.

14. Who is the revolutionary that helps Avis set up her home in the woods in Chapter 19?
(a) Wickson.
(b) Carlson.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Bishop.

15. Who makes clandestine plans with prison guards while Avis was in prison in Chapter 18?
(a) Anarchists.
(b) Proletarians.
(c) Communists.
(d) Socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Avis' father think of the circumstances surrounding the publication of his book and subsequent events?

2. What is impassive and deliberate according to Avis, taking its revenge on the revolutionists in Chapter 25?

3. Who is willing to destroy the influence of another group through political and violent confrontation in Chapter 16?

4. What are some the fragments of nightmarish memories Avis retains of her night in Chicago in Chapter 25?

5. What does the Oligarchy do to prevent the Socialists from gaining a majority in Chapter 13?

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