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

Louis Menand
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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 4, Chapter 12 Chicago, Section 4 | Part 4, Chapter 12 Chicago, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.
(a) Good word of the Bible.
(b) The evils of slavery.
(c) The equality of all people.
(d) Superiority of white people.

2. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.
(a) William James.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Alonzo Potter.
(d) Benjamin Pierce.

3. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.
(a) The lower class.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) The unions.
(d) The upper class.

4. Benjamin and Charles Pierce were called to verify the authenticity of a will document produced by __________.
(a) Edward Mott Robinson.
(b) Hetty Robinson.
(c) Sylvia Ann Howland.
(d) Isaac Howland Jr.

5. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.
(a) The Ice Age.
(b) The dinosaurs.
(c) The wooly mammoth.
(d) Electrons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Staff created _______ in the poorest section of Chicago.

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

4. The philosophy that began to emerge with the formation of the Metaphysical Club is known as_________.

5. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.

(see the answer key)

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