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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. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.
(a) Swedenborgian.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Scottish Baptist.

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) Henry James.
(c) William James.
(d) Charles Lowell.

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

4. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.
(a) William James.
(b) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) George Glidden.

5. Even though he had no formal education in either, ___________ taught psychology and philosophy at Harvard.
(a) Henry James Jr.
(b) Henry James Sr.
(c) William James
(d) Bob James.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.

2. ___________ felt that he was at a disadvantage because he had no formal education.

3. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.

4. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.

5. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.

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