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In \"The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,\" why did Mark Twain most likely create the character Henry Adams as an American living in England? A. to better compare and contrast American and British ideas about money. B. to better compare and contrast American and British eating habits. C. to better compare and contrast American and British social tendencies. D. to better compare and contrast American and British banking systems.

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Mark Twain most likely created the character Henry Adams as an American living in England C. to better compare and contrast American and British social tendencies.

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Henry Adams gets penniless in a foreign country, and without noticing it he becomes part of a bet between two siblings, this shows how a person from a different society in a situation of a lot of distress reacts towards many conflictive situations, the whole story takes us through the process of getting to the objective.

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Mark Twain most likely create the character Henry Adams as an American living in England to C. better compare and contrast American and British social tendencies. The story was about a social experiment between two brothers who bet what would happen to a poor person when handed with a £1,000,000 Bank-Note.
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