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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. Dewey had a different take on stimulus and response that stated _________.
(a) They needed to be studied separately.
(b) They were difficult concepts.
(c) They were not necessary for studying behavior.
(d) They were dependent on each other.

2. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.
(a) New York.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New Hampshire.

3. Charles Pierce did not like James' or Dewey's version of his work and thus attempted to bring forth his own form called __________.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Pragmaticism.
(c) Monogenism.
(d) Pragmatics.

4. ____________ lobbied Congress to help create a National Academy of Science.
(a) Charles Pierce and Louis Agassiz.
(b) Josiah Nott and Benjamin Pierce.
(c) Benjamin Pierce and Louis Agassiz.
(d) Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz.

5. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.
(a) The lower class.
(b) The unions.
(c) The upper class.
(d) Pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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 _________.

3. Dartmouth University started as an attempt to build a school for ____________.

4. The first president of the University of Chicago was_________.

5. Charles Pierce wrote about the Metaphysical Club _______ years after it took place.

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