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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. Charles Pierce had an addiction to ______ that started due to a childhood prescription for facial neuralgia.
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Opium.
(d) Morphine.

2. The military leaders during the time of the civil war were often chosen due to __________.
(a) Military training.
(b) Political influence.
(c) Battle prowess.
(d) Demonstrated leadership.

3. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New York.
(d) Jamestown.

4. Which person was not a member of the 'Septum'?
(a) Ephraim Gurney.
(b) Henry Buckle.
(c) Charles Eliot.
(d) Chauncy Wright.

5. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.

2. Holmes was wounded ______ times during the Civil War.

3. ________ took statistics from numbers to people and created social mechanics.

4. _________ founded the Metaphysical Club in 1872 in Cambridge.

5. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.

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