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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. 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) Scientific Pluralism.
(b) Scientific Monism.
(c) Polygenism.
(d) Polytheism.

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

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

4. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) New Yorker.
(b) Atlantic Monthly.
(c) Harvard Magazine.
(d) Boston Gazette.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.

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

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

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

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

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