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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 Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.
(a) Separationists.
(b) Conscious Whigs.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Republicans.

2. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Raleigh.
(d) Boston.

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

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

5. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Scottish Baptist.
(d) Swedenborgian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

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

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 ___________.

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

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