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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. The first president of the University of Chicago was_________.
(a) John Dewey.
(b) William James.
(c) George Herbert Mead.
(d) William Rainey Harper.

2. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.
(a) Louis Agassiz.
(b) George Glidden.
(c) William James.
(d) Elizabeth Agassiz.

3. Charles Pierce taught a ________ class in the fall of 1883 and spring of 1884 during which he announced the formation of the Metaphysical Club.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Logic.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Metaphysics.

4. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) Belgium.

5. Holmes argued that judges used __________ and then find precedents to explain their decisions.
(a) Juries.
(b) Others opinions.
(c) Their experience.
(d) Codes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

3. Chicago at the time was in the middle of the _________ strike.

4. Pierce reviewed _________ written by John Dewey and was completely disgusted.

5. William James concluded from his trip to Brazil that the effects of race and circumstances depend on a person's __________.

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