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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24 The Dynamo and The Virgin (1900).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to a letter Henry Adams wrote to his brother in "Diplomacy"?
(a) It is printed by a paper and satarized.
(b) It is turned into anti-war propaganda.
(c) It is read by his father instead.
(d) It is lost in the mail.

3. In "Silence", when does Henry Adams leave Washington, DC?
(a) When the housing prices rise.
(b) When McKinley becomes president.
(c) When he runs out of work.
(d) When Clarence King fails.

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

5. How does Henry Adams feel about natural selection?
(a) He thinks it is a good replacement for God.
(b) He thinks it can never replace God.
(c) He thinks it's nothing compared to unnatural selection.
(d) He thinks it needs more research.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Henry Adams feel that study of the Law is closed to him?

2. Who does Henry Adams turn to in his investigation in the Gould scandal?

3. In "Free Fight", why did the Executive Branch attack the Supreme Court?

4. What part of Lyell's principles does Henry Adam's get stuck on in "Darwinism"?

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

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