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

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 B

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 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 8 | Part 5, Chapter 14 Pluralisms, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pierce reviewed _________ written by John Dewey and was completely disgusted.
(a) The Origin of The Species.
(b) The Varieties of Religious Experience.
(c) Studies of Logical Theory.
(d) The Will to Believe.

2. _________ was a good friend of John Dewey and helped him to see her perspective of people through her experience at the house.
(a) Florence Kelley.
(b) Ellen Gates Starr.
(c) George Herbert Mead.
(d) Jane Addams.

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

4. One of the problems of Pragmatism is that it does not take into account _________.
(a) Governmental interests.
(b) Social interests.
(c) Religious interests.
(d) Individual interests.

5. William James concluded from his trip to Brazil that the effects of race and circumstances depend on a person's __________.
(a) Adaptability.
(b) Temperament.
(c) Personality.
(d) Upbringing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dewey started the laboratory school because he believed that Chicago public schools had a _________ on children.

2. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.

3. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.

4. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.

5. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.

(see the answer key)

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