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

2. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.
(a) Louis Agassiz.
(b) Samuel Cartwright.
(c) Josiah Nott.
(d) George Glidden.

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

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

5. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.
(a) Columbia Univeristy.
(b) University of Edinburgh.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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