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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. All of the following historical events played a role for William James becoming more active politically except ________.
(a) Suppression of the Phillipine Independence Movement.
(b) Publication of 'The Will to Believe.'
(c) Lynchings in the South.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

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

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

4. One of the problems of Pragmatism is that it does not take into account _________.
(a) Social interests.
(b) Individual interests.
(c) Religious interests.
(d) Governmental interests.

5. 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 _________.
(a) Separatism.
(b) Abolitionism.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.

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

3. After teaching high school in Pennsylvania, John Dewey enrolled at _________ in 1882.

4. Dewey had a different take on stimulus and response that stated _________.

5. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.

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