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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 Foes and Friends (1862).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political party does Henry Adams' father found?
(a) Free Soil Party.
(b) Abolitionist Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Bostonian Party.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Henry Adams and his sister travel as soon as the armistice is declared?

2. How does Charles Swinbourne awe Henry Adams?

3. Who is the English Foreign Secretary?

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

5. What did the Free Soil Party get from the Democrats when a Democrat became governor of Massachusetts?

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