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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 Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.
(a) Cotton.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Whaling.
(d) Textile.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Boston Gazette.
(b) Atlantic Monthly.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) Harvard Magazine.

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

4. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.
(a) Samuel Cartwright.
(b) Josiah Nott.
(c) George Glidden.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

5. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.
(a) Great Second Awakening.
(b) Transcendentalist Movement.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.

3. When the expedition to Brazil returned, _________ gave lectures about evidence of the Ice Age in Brazil.

4. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.

5. William James believed that there were always more solutions to a project than a single person could create, which led to the idea of ___________.

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