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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29 Vis Inertiae (1903).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the diplomatic crisis in "Vis Inertiae"?
(a) Access to China.
(b) Trade with Russia.
(c) Travel to Germany.
(d) War with France.

2. In "Washington", how does Henry Adams describe the South?
(a) Ragged and poor.
(b) Sunny and calm.
(c) Rich and glitzy.
(d) Dusty and slow.

3. In "Twenty Years After", when Henry Adams is ill in London, how does he describe his "old" education?
(a) Poor and difficult.
(b) Faulty and ill constructed.
(c) Hard to apply and worthless.
(d) Boring and slow.

4. What did the Free Soil Party get from the Democrats when a Democrat became governor of Massachusetts?
(a) Five hundred dollars.
(b) A position in the Massachusetts courts.
(c) A Senate seat.
(d) They got kicked out of Massachusetts.

5. How did Henry Adams describe his response to invitations to formal dinners in "The Perfection of Human Society"?
(a) He saved them.
(b) He dreaded them.
(c) He looked forward to them.
(d) He returned them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a letter Henry Adams wrote to his brother in "Diplomacy"?

2. According to Henry Adams in "Vis Inertiae", what do all minds do?

3. In "The Perfection of Human Society", how does Henry Adams describe society that has no unity?

4. Who else is involved in Henry Adams' journalistic investigation of the Gould scandal?

5. Why do Henry Adams and his friends attend Harvard?

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