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

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

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

4. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.
(a) Dred Scott.
(b) Wendell Phillips.
(c) Lovejoy.
(d) John Brown.

5. When the expedition to Brazil returned, _________ gave lectures about evidence of the Ice Age in Brazil.
(a) Louis Agassiz.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) William James.
(d) Elisabeth Agassiz.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.

2. Holmes' experiences during the war led him to believe that imposing one's beliefs would always lead to __________.

3. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.

4. Henry James Sr. rebelled against his father and took up religion in the form of ___________.

5. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.

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