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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. 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) Harvard University.
(d) University of Chicago.

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

3. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.
(a) Counter-intuitive.
(b) Instinctive.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Empty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.

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

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