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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After refusing to take a bribe, who loses his home, wealth and influence in Chapter 11?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Everhard.
(d) Dr. Cunningham.

2. What does Avis describe as the appliances that helped her submerge her identity in Chapter 19?
(a) Protein shakes.
(b) Plastic surgery.
(c) Immune boosters.
(d) Wigs and makeup.

3. What is the name of Avis' father's book?
(a) Socialists and the Working Poor.
(b) Anarchy and Its Purpose.
(c) Poverty and the Oligarchy.
(d) Economics and Education.

4. Who does Avis think was behind the interruption of the speech in Chapter 16?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Anarchists.
(c) Revolutionists.
(d) Oligarchy.

5. Who do the socialists drive out of power in Chapter 14?
(a) Warlord governor.
(b) Russian communists.
(c) American spies.
(d) French mercenaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Everhard talk to when he contemplates how the Oligarchy will reassert control over the country in Chapter 14?

2. What is the new caste group that arose as the Oligarchy developed a new system of government in Chapter 20?

3. Who is the condemned criminal that actually committed the crime in Chapter 17?

4. Who does Dr. Cunningham meet in San Francisco in Chapter 16?

5. Into what does Avis, Everhard and her father move into in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the seamstress.

2. What does Avis witness in the city that alarms her?

3. Describe what happens to Avis and Everhard in the end of the novel.

4. Describe the Fighting Groups.

5. How does Avis' perspective become distant and objective during the conflict in the city?

6. Describe the Oligarchy's intention towards the Grangers.

7. How is the truth about the bombing ultimately discovered?

8. Describe how the bomb is thrown in front of Congress.

9. Describe the effect of the workers' strike.

10. Describe what happened to Avis after the bombing.

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