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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. Why do Henry Adams and his friends attend Harvard?
(a) Social connections.
(b) Good education.
(c) They have free tuition.
(d) Their fathers went there.

2. 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.

3. Where does Henry Adams live in "President Grant"?
(a) A hotel room.
(b) At the White House.
(c) With his father.
(d) A boarding house.

4. Who was NOT related to Henry Adams?
(a) Francis Adams.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) Samuel Adams.
(d) John Adams.

5. Trying to stop the English constructed rams is called what type of battle in "The Battle of the Rams"?
(a) A diplomatic battle.
(b) A silent battle.
(c) A military battle.
(d) The only battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry Adams feel about society in England?

2. What does Henry Adams feel correlates with the winter?

3. How does Henry Adams describe the bankers he works with in "The Press"?

4. What political party does Henry Adams' father found?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Henry Adams return to ideas of Darwinism in "Twilight", and what does he think?

2. When Henry Adams visits the Coutinces in France to see the Virgin, what does he discover?

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

4. Why does Henry Adams receive little education in "Treason"?

5. What are the four main influences Henry Adams describes in the first chapter, "Quincy"?

6. In the beginning of "A Law of Acceleration", how does Henry Adams describe images?

7. Why does Henry Adams feel he can no longer work in diplomacy?

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

9. In "Vis Inertiae", why does Henry Adams take an interest in inertia?

10. How is Henry Adams involved in the battle between the Supreme Court and Executive Branch in "Free Fight"?

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