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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9 The Metaphysical Club, Section 2 | Part 3, Chapter 9 The Metaphysical Club, Section 3 | Part 3, Chapter 9 The Metaphysical Club, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Holmes was not present for the Battle of Fredericksburg and viewed it as _________.
(a) A great success.
(b) Proof of his convictions.
(c) Racist.
(d) A waste of humanity.

4. William James and Charles Pierce became friends while they were both attending ___________.
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Lawrence Scientific School.
(d) Cambridge University.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.

3. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.

4. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.

5. ___________was a physician from Montgomery, Alabama that did not agree with slavery but was afraid of Black people.

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