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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The authority of _________ characterizes pre-modern societies, but not modern societies.
(a) Chance.
(b) Heredity.
(c) Nurture.
(d) Environment.

2. When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.
(a) Columbia University.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.
(a) The Coast Service.
(b) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.
(c) Harvard Law School.
(d) University of Chicago.

4. Targets of the Ku Klux Klan at the beginning of World War I included all of the following except __________.
(a) American born Protestant white men.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Jews.

5. This new organization was sold to ___________ stating that it protected university and college professors from being terminated for differing thoughts.
(a) The public.
(b) Rockefeller.
(c) The Peace Corps.
(d) The government.

6. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.
(a) George Morris.
(b) William James.
(c) Francis Parker.
(d) John Dewey.

7. Jane Addams wrote an article comparing the opposing sides in the Pullman strike to __________.
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet and his father.
(c) King Lear and Ophelia,
(d) Polonius and Hamlet.

8. Charles Pierce taught a ________ class in the fall of 1883 and spring of 1884 during which he announced the formation of the Metaphysical Club.
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Logic.

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

10. Holmes believed that experiences are governed by society and thus _________.
(a) Have no effect on the individual.
(b) Are infallible.
(c) Stay the same over time.
(d) Change over time.

11. 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) The upper class.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) The unions.

12. _________ sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932.
(a) Benjamin Pierce.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Oliver Holmes.
(d) William James.

13. Kallen was asked to prepare __________ manuscripts for publication in 1915.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

14. __________ is the idea that people come at life from different places, and understand the world in different ways.
(a) Separatism.
(b) Singularism.
(c) Individualism.
(d) Pluralism.

15. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.
(a) Laugh.
(b) Communicate.
(c) Grow.
(d) Learn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dewey offered to combine the Laboratory school and ________ elementary in order to keep the funding of a wealthy patron.

2. What was the organization that Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell created in 1915, similar to the AMA or the ABA?

3. Hegel espoused a ________ philosophy which was not in accordance with how James viewed the world.

4. Which amendment was created to give black people more rights and to protect them after the Civil War?

5. _________ wrote a book called 'The Will to Believe' and dedicated it to Charles Pierce.

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