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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. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.
(a) Harvard University.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Edinburgh.
(d) Columbia Univeristy.

2. In 1903, James published a book entitled _________.
(a) The Varieties of Religious Experience.
(b) The Origin of the Species.
(c) Studies of Logical Theory.
(d) The Will to Believe.

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

4. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) William James.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) John Dewey.

5. _________ believed there could be no individual without society.
(a) John Wheelock.
(b) William James.
(c) James Marsh.
(d) John Locke.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In 1854 __________ published a two-book set entitled Types of Mankind asserting the supremacy of the white race.

4. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.

5. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.

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