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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Henry Adams returns to New York in "Nunc Age", what has grown in the city?
(a) Worry.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Homelessness.

2. In "Vis Nova", when did Henry Adams return to Washington, DC?
(a) In the spring.
(b) Before Thanksgiving.
(c) After Christmas.
(d) After the war started.

3. In "A Law of Acceleration", what does Henry Adams say is the ultimate object of science?
(a) Motion.
(b) Acceleration.
(c) Thought.
(d) Matter.

4. How does Henry Adams describe "The Woman" in America?
(a) Supreme.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Revered.
(d) Questioned.

5. In "Indian Summer", what country becomes allies with the United States in the war?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

6. How does the Senate respond to Hay's actions in "Twilight"?
(a) They oppose him.
(b) They question him.
(c) They support him.
(d) They ignore him.

7. In "A Dynamic Theory of History", what does Henry Adams describe as the "development and economy of forces"?
(a) Inertia.
(b) Progress.
(c) Force.
(d) Man.

8. What does Henry Adams say Stockholm is pressed by?
(a) Northern ice and Russia.
(b) Glaciers and debt.
(c) Cold and Germans.
(d) Rocks and Russia.

9. What is the principle element Henry Adams is trying to understand in "The Grammar of Science"?
(a) Unity among chaos.
(b) Inertia as a movement of matter.
(c) Accelerating technological progress.
(d) The Virgin as progress.

10. Henry Adams says that even though he has looked at art in Art Museums he doesn't know what?
(a) How to buy art as an investment.
(b) How to analyze art.
(c) How to look at art exhibits in 1900.
(d) How to make his own art.

11. What does Henry Adams say Americans in the year 2000 would know how to do?
(a) Unify complex thought.
(b) Fly planes.
(c) Read scientific theories.
(d) Control unlimited power.

12. When traveling with Mrs. Lodge, what does Henry Adams decide to label himself as?
(a) A Liberal Christian Anarchist.
(b) A Liberal Catholic Anarchist.
(c) A Conservative Christian Anarchist.
(d) A Conservate Catholic Anarchist.

13. Where does Henry Adams travel in "The Abyss of Ignorance"?
(a) California.
(b) London.
(c) Russia.
(d) Paris.

14. In 1900, what was the chief interest of Washington, DC?
(a) Its consolidation of power.
(b) Its diversity of people.
(c) Its distance from New York.
(d) Its recent influx of money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Grammar of Science"?

2. Who does Henry Adams compare Theodore Roosevelt to?

3. What is Henry Adams trying to discover in "The Grammar of Science"?

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

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

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