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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. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.
(a) Montpelier philosophy.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Conservative individualism.
(d) Burlington philosophy.

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

3. William James believed that people have beliefs because the object of belief has been shown to have _________.
(a) Purpose.
(b) Colors.
(c) Value.
(d) Consequences.

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

5. _______ 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. James felt that pragmatism was the philosophy of __________.

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

3. ___________was a physician from Montgomery, Alabama that did not agree with slavery but was afraid of Black people.

4. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.

5. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.

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