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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. What is Sumner trying to accomplish in regards to foreign policy in "Free Fight"?
(a) To start trade with Britain.
(b) To purchase the Virgin Islands.
(c) To have control of Canada.
(d) To have control of Mexico.

2. Who publishes Henry Adams' finished piece on the Gould scandal?
(a) English Monthly.
(b) North American Review.
(c) Edinburgh Review.
(d) New York Times.

3. What does Henry Adams begin to collect in "Dilettamtism"?
(a) Ancient artifacts.
(b) Silk.
(c) Coins.
(d) Artwork.

4. In "Twenty Years After", when Henry Adams is ill in London, how does he describe his "old" education?
(a) Faulty and ill constructed.
(b) Hard to apply and worthless.
(c) Poor and difficult.
(d) Boring and slow.

5. When Henry Adams returns to Boston in "Free Fight", what part of the scandal does he choose to write about?
(a) Railways.
(b) Gold.
(c) President Grant.
(d) Jay Gould.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Twenty Years After", Henry Adams says the world is no longer what?

3. After returning from Europe, how does Henry Adams see the people of Washington, DC?

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

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

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