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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. 12 years out of school, Holmes wrote an article based on ________, the idea that if one does his job correctly and with honor, one should be fulfilled.
(a) Jobbism.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Separatism.
(d) Occupationism.

2. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.
(a) Biology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

3. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.
(a) Phillips.
(b) Lovejoy.
(c) James.
(d) Holmes Sr.

4. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.
(a) The Ice Age.
(b) The dinosaurs.
(c) Electrons.
(d) The wooly mammoth.

5. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.
(a) John Brown.
(b) Wendell Phillips.
(c) Lovejoy.
(d) Dred Scott.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ___________ felt that he was at a disadvantage because he had no formal education.

3. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

4. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.

5. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.

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