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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) New Yorker.
(b) Harvard Magazine.
(c) Boston Gazette.
(d) Atlantic Monthly.

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

4. Holmes' experiences during the war led him to believe that imposing one's beliefs would always lead to __________.
(a) Change.
(b) Peace.
(c) Violence.
(d) Slavery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.

4. William James concluded from his trip to Brazil that the effects of race and circumstances depend on a person's __________.

5. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.

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