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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 President Grant (1869).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Free Soil Party get from the Democrats when a Democrat became governor of Massachusetts?
(a) They got kicked out of Massachusetts.
(b) Five hundred dollars.
(c) A position in the Massachusetts courts.
(d) A Senate seat.

3. How does Henry Adams describe English society in "The Perfection of Human Society"?
(a) Perfection.
(b) Old-fashioned.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Forward thinking.

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

5. During Chapter 2, "Boston", what plays the biggest role in Henry Adams' education?
(a) Anti-slavery groups.
(b) The church.
(c) His father.
(d) Yale University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What English company builds Ironclad rams?

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

3. Who is the English Foreign Secretary?

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

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

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