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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 4 | Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James felt that pragmatism was the philosophy of __________.
(a) Simplicity.
(b) Decision making.
(c) Complexity.
(d) Being practical.

2. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.
(a) Henry James Sr.
(b) William James.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) Samuel George Morton.

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

4. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.
(a) Liberal Individualism.
(b) Conservative Individualism.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Transcendent Unity.

5. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.
(a) George Glidden.
(b) Josiah Nott.
(c) Samuel Cartwright.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.

2. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.

3. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.

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

5. William James believed that people have beliefs because the object of belief has been shown to have _________.

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