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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 7 The Pierces, Section 5 | Part 3, Chapter 8 The Law of Errors, Section 1 | Part 3, Chapter 8 The Law of Errors, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The war had been compared to _________ and the Union soldiers rallied themselves around it.
(a) The storming of the Bastille.
(b) The War of Independence.
(c) The Crusades.
(d) The Trojan War.

2. ___________ disliked immigration and created a society of married women who demanded their husbands pay for housecleaning.
(a) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(b) Sarah Pierce.
(c) Hetty Robinson.
(d) Harriet Melusina Fay.

3. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.
(a) The dinosaurs.
(b) Electrons.
(c) The wooly mammoth.
(d) The Ice Age.

4. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.
(a) Democrats.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Separationists.
(d) Conscious Whigs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.

2. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.

3. ____________ began with a drunken man hallucinating in a tavern. This religion later became affiliated with Mesmerism.

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

5. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.

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