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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 8 | Part 5, Chapter 14 Pluralisms, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.
(a) Misfits.
(b) Reformers.
(c) Geniuses.
(d) Conformers.

3. _________ wrote a book called 'The Will to Believe' and dedicated it to Charles Pierce.
(a) Charles Pierce's brother.
(b) John Dewey .
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) William James.

4. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.
(a) Things are connected loosely.
(b) It is many directional.
(c) It is many dimensional.
(d) Things progess in an ultimate and absolute way.

5. William James and Charles Pierce became friends while they were both attending ___________.
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Lawrence Scientific School.

Short Answer Questions

1. During one of the club meetings _________ read a paper called Design and Chance.

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

3. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.

4. Henry Sr. viewed _________ as he did everything, with a distrust of institutions.

5. ___________ disliked immigration and created a society of married women who demanded their husbands pay for housecleaning.

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