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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.
(a) William James.
(b) Louis Agassiz.
(c) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(d) George Glidden.

2. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Scottish Baptist.
(c) Swedenborgian.
(d) Presbyterian.

3. In 1854 __________ published a two-book set entitled Types of Mankind asserting the supremacy of the white race.
(a) Agassiz and Glidden.
(b) Nott and Glidden.
(c) Nott and James.
(d) Nott and Agassiz.

4. Holmes was wounded ______ times during the Civil War.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

5. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.
(a) Vermont.
(b) New York.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New Hampshire.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

3. Holmes joined the army because he felt that it was his duty to fight for what he believed. What was his first battle?

4. _________ believed there could be no individual without society.

5. __________ is the theory stating that races originate from separate sources.

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the two occupations between which William James kept having troubles making up his mind?

2. What was based on a combination of the theory of probability and statistics?

3. How did the Abolitionists view the Unionists during the period of the Civil War?

4. What did the Civil War allow Congress to create as it became more active than any other time in history?

5. Though John Dewey was often considered to be a liberal, what were some of his true views?

6. What are some examples of the ways that Ernest Holmes changed the tone of the Harvard Magazine as the editor?

7. What did Agassiz want to prove about the fish that James caught while traveling in Brazil?

8. What did Quetlet use the method of least squares for when he was doing his own research?

9. Why did Charles Pierce decide he wanted to found the Metaphysical Club in 1872?

10. Why was Boston the financial center for all cotton products in the mid 19th century?

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