1: As a boy, Henry spends summers in
a. Marblehead
b. Newport
c. Quincy
d. Salem
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2: As a senior at Harvard, Henry is named
a. Valedictorian
b. Salutatorian
c. winner of the Bowdoin Prize
d. Class Orator
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3: In Berlin, Adams spends most of his class time studying
a. German language at a prep school
b. cooking at the Küchenchef
c. writing at the Urheber
d. history at the University of Berlin
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4: Henry’s sister Louisa dies as the result of
a. childbirth
b. malaria
c. consumption
d. tetanus
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5: Henry meets Clarence King at
a. John Hay’s wedding
b. a geological expedition
c. Mansfield Park
d. a political rally in London
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6: The leader of the slum gang in the infamous snowball fight is
a. Conky Daniels
b. Eliot Gould
c. Charlie Eliot
d. Billy McKinley
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7: In Washington, Henry’s next-door neighbor and close friend, who eventually becomes Secretary of State, is
a. John LaFarge
b. John Marshall
c. John Cabot
d. John Hay
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8: The woman who becomes Henry’s emotional confidante after Marian’s suicide is
a. Elizabeth Montgomery
b. Elizabeth Cameron
c. Elizabeth Barrett
d. Elizabeth Whitney
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9: As a journalist, Henry investigates a scheme in which financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the market on
a. cattle
b. silver
c. gold
d. copper
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10: Who said the following: "Venice would be a fine city if it were drained."
a. Henry Adams
b. Ulysses S. Grant
c. William Shakespeare
d. William Seward
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11: Who said the following: Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy "have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made, what is more than either, they have made a nation."
a. Chancellor of the Exchequer William Ewart Gladstone
b. Queen Victoria
c. Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston
d. British Foreign Secretary Lord Russell
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12: Who said the following: "Who is not lost in wild surmise at the crux?"
a. Thurlow Weed
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Ernest Samuels
d. Count Arthur Cassini
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