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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27 The Height of Knowledge (1902).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hay primarily use his power as Secretary of State?
(a) Pushing for war.
(b) Taking vacations overseas.
(c) Petitioning for new laws and regulations.
(d) Creating treaties and alliances.

2. In "Eccentricity", how does Henry Adams describe Bright?
(a) Conventional.
(b) Poetic.
(c) Un-English.
(d) Eccentric.

3. Why does the president of Harvard write Henry Adams a letter?
(a) To ask him to get a law degree.
(b) To ask him to teach.
(c) To ask him for a donation.
(d) To ask him to give a speach.

4. Why does Henry Adams return to London in "Chaos"?
(a) He needed to escape Grant.
(b) To go back to college.
(c) Because he got a new job.
(d) To make sure his article was published.

5. At the end of "Eccentricity", what does Henry Adams conclude about eccentricity?
(a) That it is strength.
(b) That it is weakness.
(c) That it is a joke.
(d) That it is all a lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Henry Adams in Chapter 12, who seems to be eccentric?

2. In "Chaos", what countries go to war?

3. What thought does Henry Adams distrust?

4. In "Eccentricity", what does Henry Adams say is the beginning and end of political education?

5. When Henry Adams returns to the United States in "Chaos", what does he discover about his articles?

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