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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 The Wilderness, Section 5 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 1 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.
(a) Lovejoy.
(b) Phillips.
(c) James.
(d) Holmes Sr.

2. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) Jamestown.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Philadelphia.

3. After Holmes returned to the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg, there was a new regiment created of black volunteers, the __________.
(a) 54th Massachusetts.
(b) 59th Massachusetts.
(c) 45th Massachusetts.
(d) 57th Massachusetts.

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

5. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.
(a) New Yorker.
(b) Harvard Magazine.
(c) North American Review.
(d) Atlantic Review.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

2. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.

3. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a(n) _________.

4. 12 years out of school, Holmes wrote an article based on ________, the idea that if one does his job correctly and with honor, one should be fulfilled.

5. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.

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