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

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Many Southerners and Northerners found a problem with _________ because it seemed to contradict Genesis.

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

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

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

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