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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6 Brazil, Section 3 | Part 2, Chapter 6 Brazil, Section 4 | Part 3, Chapter 7 The Pierces, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Boston Gazette.
(b) New Yorker.
(c) Atlantic Monthly.
(d) Harvard Magazine.

2. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.
(a) 40 days.
(b) 60 days.
(c) 30 days.
(d) 20 days.

3. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.
(a) Scottish Baptists.
(b) Primitive Christians.
(c) Swedenborgism.
(d) Lutheran.

4. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

5. William James concluded from his trip to Brazil that the effects of race and circumstances depend on a person's __________.
(a) Adaptability.
(b) Upbringing.
(c) Temperament.
(d) Personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the expedition to Brazil returned, _________ gave lectures about evidence of the Ice Age in Brazil.

2. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.

3. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.

4. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

5. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.

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