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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 Twenty Years After (1892).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who else is involved in Henry Adams' journalistic investigation of the Gould scandal?
(a) Frank Waller.
(b) Henry Boutwell.
(c) Brooks Adams.
(d) C.F. Adams.

2. What position does Lincoln give Charles Francis Adams?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Minister to England.
(c) Personal assistant.
(d) Supreme Court Justice.

3. What does Henry Adams call "the last refuge of the educated poor"?
(a) The press.
(b) Diplomacy.
(c) The law.
(d) Trade work.

4. In "Twenty Years After", Henry Adams says the world is no longer what?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Simple.
(c) Fun.
(d) Explainable.

5. What happens to a letter Henry Adams wrote to his brother in "Diplomacy"?
(a) It is lost in the mail.
(b) It is printed by a paper and satarized.
(c) It is read by his father instead.
(d) It is turned into anti-war propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Battle of the Rams", why does Lord Russell often say he can not intervene?

2. In "Treason", who does Henry Adams say needs an education?

3. When Henry Adams returns to Boston in "Free Fight", what part of the scandal does he choose to write about?

4. What turned the Civil War in favor of the Union?

5. How does Henry Adams feel about society in England?

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