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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. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
(a) William James.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) Josiah Nott.

2. When the expedition to Brazil returned, _________ gave lectures about evidence of the Ice Age in Brazil.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) William James.
(c) Elisabeth Agassiz.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.
(a) Good word of the Bible.
(b) The evils of slavery.
(c) The equality of all people.
(d) Superiority of white people.

4. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.
(a) Religious.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Occupational.
(d) Educational.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. William James spent a great deal of time and energy on being indecisive, but he was able to use it to create the idea of _________.

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

3. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.

4. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.

5. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.

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