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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. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Conservative Individualism.
(c) Liberal Individualism.
(d) Transcendent Unity.

2. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.
(a) Primitive Christians.
(b) Scottish Baptists.
(c) Swedenborgism.
(d) Lutheran.

3. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.
(a) Henry James Jr.
(b) William James.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) Samuel George Morton.

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

5. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.
(a) Charles Lowell.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Henry Abbott.
(d) William James.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.

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

3. Whaling expeditions were often underwritten by agencies which were run by __________.

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

5. Students in Dewey's classes were taught by _______.

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