The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Louis Menand
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Louis Menand
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6 Brazil, Section 3 | Part 2, Chapter 6 Brazil, Section 4 | Part 3, Chapter 7 The Pierces, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.
(a) Boston.
(b) Jamestown.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Raleigh.

2. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.
(a) Henry Abbott.
(b) Charles Lowell.
(c) Henry James.
(d) William James.

3. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.
(a) Primitive Christians.
(b) Scottish Baptists.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Swedenborgism.

4. William James spent a great deal of time and energy on being indecisive, but he was able to use it to create the idea of _________.
(a) Separatism.
(b) Abolitionism.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Pragmatism.

5. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.

2. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.

3. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.

4. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.

5. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.

(see the answer key)

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