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

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

3. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.
(a) Joseph Torrey.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Henry Torrey.
(d) Sarah Paine Torrey.

4. ___________was a physician from Montgomery, Alabama that did not agree with slavery but was afraid of Black people.
(a) George Glidden.
(b) Louis Agassiz.
(c) William James.
(d) Josiah Nott.

5. Many Southerners and Northerners found a problem with _________ because it seemed to contradict Genesis.
(a) Monogenism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Types of Mankind.
(d) Polygenism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.

4. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.

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

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