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The Education of Henry Adams Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry Adams feel correlates with the winter?
(a) School.
(b) Leaving home.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Nature.

2. What almost killed Henry Adams when he was eight?
(a) The British.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) A dog.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

3. What English company builds Ironclad rams?
(a) Fences.
(b) Laird.
(c) Russell, Inc.
(d) Vick.

4. Who does Henry Adams say the social eccentrics sympathize with?
(a) No one.
(b) American eccentrics.
(c) Members of Parliament.
(d) The political eccentrics.

5. Who did William Gladstone try to include in his support of the South?
(a) C.F. Adams.
(b) Henry Adams.
(c) Napoleon III.
(d) Lord Russell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Eccentricity", how does Henry Adams describe Bright?

2. How long did the Adams go to Italy for?

3. How does Charles Swinbourne awe Henry Adams?

4. In "Eccentricity", what does Henry Adams say is the beginning and end of political education?

5. In "Harvard", how does Henry Adams describe his years at Harvard?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Chaos", what events happen while Henry Adams is in Europe that cause him to be disillusioned?

2. What does Henry Adams say will come of his meeting with Charles and Mrs. Gaskill?

3. How does Darwinism confuse Henry Adams?

4. Why does Henry Adams receive little education in "Treason"?

5. How does Henry Adams define the role of the church and what it condemned in "A Dynamic Theory of History"?

6. Why is Charles Sumner a hero to Henry Adams?

7. In "The Grammar of Science", why does Henry Adams explore varying scientific views and what is the result?

8. What happens at Cambridge House in "Foes and Friends"?

9. What is Hugh McCullogh doing in "The Press" that impresses Henry Adams?

10. What disappoints Henry Adams about President Grant?

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