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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. ____________ lobbied Congress to help create a National Academy of Science.
(a) Charles Pierce and Louis Agassiz.
(b) Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz.
(c) Josiah Nott and Benjamin Pierce.
(d) Benjamin Pierce and Louis Agassiz.

2. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.
(a) Republicans.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Separationists.
(d) Conscious Whigs.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.
(a) Superiority of white people.
(b) The equality of all people.
(c) Good word of the Bible.
(d) The evils of slavery.

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

5. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.
(a) The Law of Probability.
(b) The Law of Errors.
(c) The Law of Statistics.
(d) The Bell Curve Law.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.

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

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