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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry Adams think Russia could do because of its size?
(a) Manufacture all its own goods.
(b) Crush other cultures and countries.
(c) Build the longest railway in the world.
(d) Run out of money to support its citizens.

2. In "Vis Nova", when discussing the current White House, what does Henry Adams say had no place there?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Reticence.
(c) Logic.
(d) Hope.

3. In "A Law of Acceleration", what does Henry Adams say is the ultimate object of science?
(a) Motion.
(b) Acceleration.
(c) Matter.
(d) Thought.

4. What is Henry Adams trying to discover in "The Grammar of Science"?
(a) Something revolutionary.
(b) Something to further the complexities.
(c) Something to end war.
(d) Something unifying.

5. What does Henry Adams say Stockholm is pressed by?
(a) Cold and Germans.
(b) Glaciers and debt.
(c) Rocks and Russia.
(d) Northern ice and Russia.

6. How does Henry Adams say his dynamic theory of history began?
(a) With a question.
(b) With little hope.
(c) With an observation.
(d) With a dream.

7. In "Indian Summer", who is chosen to be Secretary of State?
(a) Adams.
(b) Sumner.
(c) Hay.
(d) Lafarge.

8. At the end of "The Abyss of Ignorance", how many books does Henry Adams say he will write?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

9. What is the Fortieth Parallel Survey?
(a) A census.
(b) A geological survey.
(c) An opinon survey.
(d) A historical survey.

10. When does Henry Adams say he wish he could return to see the world?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1938.

11. When Henry Adams goes to Washington, DC in "Nunc Age", what does he note Hay needs?
(a) Money.
(b) Compassion.
(c) A wife.
(d) Rest.

12. In "A Dynamic Theory of History", Henry Adams says that in the past man was attracted to what energy and force?
(a) Regimes.
(b) Divinity.
(c) History.
(d) Nature.

13. What does Henry Adams have in common with his friend, Hay?
(a) They both wrote about American history.
(b) They both fought in only one war.
(c) They both ran for political office.
(d) They both lost all their money.

14. Who does Henry Adams meet because of his work at the North American Review?
(a) Frank Welch.
(b) Frank Emmons.
(c) Clarence King.
(d) All the senators.

15. Henry Adams says that as things become more complex, they need what?
(a) A larger synthesis.
(b) A wider evaluation.
(c) An end.
(d) A simple representation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Vis Nova", when did Henry Adams return to Washington, DC?

2. Who is the author of "The Grammar of Science"?

3. Henry Adams predicts that if science keeps doubling its complexities, what will succumb?

4. Henry Adams says that unity is is a scientific analysis commonly called what?

5. In "The Abyss of Ignorance", Henry Adams says that philosophers have stood where for thousands of years?

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