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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. What position does Henry Adams obtain at Harvard?
(a) Dean of Admissions.
(b) Resident Advisor.
(c) Class President.
(d) Class Orator.

2. What does Henry Adams feel correlates with the winter?
(a) Leaving home.
(b) Nature.
(c) School.
(d) Christmas.

3. In "Free Fight", why did the Executive Branch attack the Supreme Court?
(a) Frank Waller.
(b) Term Limits.
(c) Gold Standard.
(d) Legal Tender.

4. How does Henry Adams describe the bankers he works with in "The Press"?
(a) Worldly and experienced.
(b) Slow-witted but well meaning.
(c) Narrow-minded and inflexible.
(d) Well-educated but dull.

5. Who did William Gladstone try to include in his support of the South?
(a) C.F. Adams.
(b) Napoleon III.
(c) Henry Adams.
(d) Lord Russell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry Adams plan called "Sessions"?

2. How long did the Adams go to Italy for?

3. Why does Henry Adams return to London in "Chaos"?

4. Who publishes Henry Adams' finished piece on the Gould scandal?

5. How does the English Prime Minister try to turn Parliament against the United States in "Foes and Friends"?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Henry Adams, what are "The Dynamo and The Virgin"?

2. What happened to Henry Adams' political biases at Harvard?

3. What happens at Cambridge House in "Foes and Friends"?

4. What is Hugh McCullogh doing in "The Press" that impresses Henry Adams?

5. How does Henry Adams define the role of the church and what it condemned in "A Dynamic Theory of History"?

6. Why is Charles Sumner a hero to Henry Adams?

7. How does man play into Henry Adams' dynamic theory of history?

8. How does Henry Adams describe Theodore Roosevelt in "The Height of Knowledge"?

9. According to Henry Adams, what type of American should not even think of English society?

10. What makes the building of ironclad rams in England controversial?

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