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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 6 | Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The war had been compared to _________ and the Union soldiers rallied themselves around it.
(a) The Crusades.
(b) The storming of the Bastille.
(c) The Trojan War.
(d) The War of Independence.

2. The United States was currently in the middle of a ________ and many employers were cutting wages.
(a) Depression.
(b) Election.
(c) Recession.
(d) Economic boom.

3. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.
(a) Atlantic Review.
(b) New Yorker.
(c) Harvard Magazine.
(d) North American Review.

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

5. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.
(a) 13.
(b) 16.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.

2. During Holmes' first semester teaching at Harvard Law School he was offered a seat on__________.

3. Holmes believed that experiences are governed by society and thus _________.

4. The method of least squares was used by Charles in his research for the Coast Survey which led to being considered one of the best ____________

5. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.

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