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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image does Henry Adams say is needed in "A Law of Acceleration"?
(a) A new centre.
(b) A new bridge.
(c) A new history.
(d) A new leader.

2. Who replaced their minister in London in "Vis Inertiae"?
(a) The Kaiser.
(b) The Chinese Prime Minister.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Cassini.

3. In "The Abyss of Ignorance", Henry Adams says that philosophers have stood where for thousands of years?
(a) On the highest ground in town.
(b) On the shore of a sunless sea.
(c) On a cliff above the valley.
(d) On their toes.

4. Where did Henry Adams go in "The Dynamo and The Virgin" to try to gain knowledge?
(a) The Great Exhibition.
(b) The Chicago Library.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) Harvard.

5. In "A Dynamic Theory of History", what does Henry Adams describe as "anything that does, or helps to do work".
(a) Man.
(b) Progress.
(c) Force.
(d) Inertia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Henry Adams compare Theodore Roosevelt to?

2. What century does Henry Adams consider using to measure his own time in history?

3. In "A Dynamic Theory of History", Henry Adams says that in the past man was attracted to what energy and force?

4. What subject is Henry Adams going to teach?

5. What does Henry Adams say Americans in the year 2000 would know how to do?

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