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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.
(a) Pushman.
(b) Morris.
(c) Dewey.
(d) Pullman.

2. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Staff created _______ in the poorest section of Chicago.
(a) Pushman house.
(b) Taylor house.
(c) Pullman house.
(d) Hull house.

3. Bentley and Dewey published a book called "Knowing the Known" giving American society knowledge about________.
(a) Emigrants.
(b) American born women.
(c) American born men.
(d) Immigrants.

4. The school was run based on the operating philosophies of ________ schools, including 'pure learning' and 'academic freedom'.
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Belgian.
(d) English.

5. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.
(a) Belgium.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

6. All of the following historical events played a role for William James becoming more active politically except ________.
(a) Lynchings in the South.
(b) Suppression of the Phillipine Independence Movement.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) Publication of 'The Will to Believe.'

7. Pierce also believed that humans get their ideas of right and wrong from __________.
(a) God.
(b) Laws.
(c) Internal sources.
(d) Other humans.

8. _______ used notes to form the Hibbert Lectures which were eventually published in ' A Pluralistic Universe'.
(a) William James.
(b) Charles Pierce.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) John Dewey.

9. __________ was created with a grant from a personal estate with direction to create a university.
(a) Dartmouth College.
(b) Johns Hopkins University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) University of Vermont.

10. Modern societies are led by ________ and the procedures and theories that led to modernity.
(a) Chance.
(b) Heredity.
(c) Nurture.
(d) Nature.

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

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

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

14. Despite his extensive training both at home and abroad Morris was unable to attain a professorship until offered one at __________.
(a) University of Indiana.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) Union Theological College.
(d) Harvard University.

15. University presidents or ____________ did not accept the formation of the American Association of University Professors.
(a) Unions.
(b) Board of trustees.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Congressmen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Randolph Bourne believed his purpose in life was to find the ____________ in other people's theories and philosophies.

3. In May 1918, Congress amended the law to become the Espionage and _________ Act.

4. During one of the club meetings _________ read a paper called Design and Chance.

5. Holmes greatest achievement was __________.

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