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

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 | Eight Week Quiz G

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 15 Freedoms, Section 3 | Part 5, Chapter 15 Freedoms, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In September of 1876 __________ died of an overdose at the age of 46.
(a) Charles Eliot.
(b) William James.
(c) Chauncy Wright.
(d) Nicholas St. John Green.

2. Students in Dewey's classes were taught by _______.
(a) Reading.
(b) Observation.
(c) Listening.
(d) Example.

3. __________ created the method of least squares in order to find the true location of the object.
(a) Carl Gauss.
(b) Adrien Legendre.
(c) Pierre Laplace.
(d) Benjamin Pierce.

4. Hall gave lectures to educators concerning an educational system created by _________.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) William James.
(c) George Morris.
(d) John Dewey.

5. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.
(a) Awakening.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Great Second Awakening.
(d) Transcendentalist Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The school was run based on the operating philosophies of ________ schools, including 'pure learning' and 'academic freedom'.

2. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.

3. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.

4. After teaching high school in Pennsylvania, John Dewey enrolled at _________ in 1882.

5. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

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