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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the English Foreign Secretary?
(a) Charles Adams.
(b) Lord Cambridge.
(c) Lord Russell.
(d) Lord Palmerston.

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

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

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

5. At the end of "Eccentricity", what does Henry Adams conclude about eccentricity?
(a) That it is strength.
(b) That it is weakness.
(c) That it is a joke.
(d) That it is all a lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Lincoln give Charles Francis Adams?

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

3. What did Henry Adams' father's political party have to do to gain power?

4. How does Charles Swinbourne awe Henry Adams?

5. How does Henry Adams describe English society in "The Perfection of Human Society"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Twenty Years After", what does Henry Adams observe about the new generation?

2. When Henry Adams visits the South in "Washington", how does he describe it?

3. What does Henry Adams say about impossibilities and his life in "A Law of Acceleration"?

4. How did Henry Adams' work in finance in "Darwinism" build a future career?

5. What does Henry Adams think about after learning of Hay's death?

6. What disappoints Henry Adams about President Grant?

7. What type of "new man" did New York demand in "Nunc Age" and why?

8. In "Chaos", what happens between Henry Adams in Harvard?

9. In "Silence", why does Henry Adams say he should remain silent?

10. Why does Henry Adams feel his education went backwards in England and Germany?

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