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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) William James.
(b) George Glidden.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) Josiah Nott.

2. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.
(a) Montpelier philosophy.
(b) Liberal individualism.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Burlington philosophy.

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

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 Edinburgh.
(c) Columbia Univeristy.
(d) University of Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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