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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. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.
(a) Transcendentalist Movement.
(b) Great Second Awakening.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Civil War.

2. 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) Occupationism.
(d) Separatism.

3. Henry Sr. viewed _________ as he did everything, with a distrust of institutions.
(a) Government.
(b) Military.
(c) Religion.
(d) Education.

4. William James believed that there were always more solutions to a project than a single person could create, which led to the idea of ___________.
(a) Polygenism.
(b) Scientific Pluralism.
(c) Scientific Monism.
(d) Polytheism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.

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. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.

4. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.

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

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