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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. In 1903, James published a book entitled _________.

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

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