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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Fortieth Parallel Survey?

2. What does Henry Adams say 19th century society measured their progress by?

3. Henry Adams notes that progress is unstoppable so what is necessary?

4. When does Henry Adams say his education ended?

5. When Henry Adams returns to New York in "Nunc Age", what has grown in the city?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Henry Adams spends years attending institutions of formal education. How does Henry Adams feel about formal education? What shaped his opinions? What ways does he think of to fix what is wrong with formal education?

Essay Topic 2

Henry Adams created the terms the Dynamo and the Virgin. What are the Dynamo and the Virgin? How do they relate to each other? What do they represent in the world? How do these ideas help Adams' create all of his theories of the world? Are these useful terms? Why/why not?

Essay Topic 3

How did Henry Adams' time in England as his father's secretary shape him? How does this time count as education? What did Henry Adams learn? How did his time in England impact the rest of his future?

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