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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. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 10.

2. Henry James had a relationship with _________ who like him disliked institutionalization and systems.
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Charles Lowell.
(d) Henry Abbott.

3. 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 James.
(b) Charles Lowell.
(c) Henry Abbott.
(d) William James.

4. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought by generals Lee and ________.
(a) Grant.
(b) 'Stonewall Jackson.'
(c) Wright.
(d) McClellan.

5. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.
(a) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(b) William James.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) George Glidden.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.

2. Charles Pierce had an addiction to ______ that started due to a childhood prescription for facial neuralgia.

3. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.

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

5. The war had been compared to _________ and the Union soldiers rallied themselves around it.

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