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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. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.
(a) John Dewey.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) William James.

2. Holmes' experiences during the war led him to believe that imposing one's beliefs would always lead to __________.
(a) Violence.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Change.
(d) Peace.

3. __________ created the method of least squares in order to find the true location of the object.
(a) Benjamin Pierce.
(b) Adrien Legendre.
(c) Carl Gauss.
(d) Pierre Laplace.

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

5. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) Raleigh.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

3. William James spent a great deal of time and energy on being indecisive, but he was able to use it to create the idea of _________.

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

5. Holmes was not present for the Battle of Fredericksburg and viewed it as _________.

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