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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. Henry James had a relationship with _________ who like him disliked institutionalization and systems.
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Henry Abbott.
(c) Charles Lowell.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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

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

4. ____________ began with a drunken man hallucinating in a tavern. This religion later became affiliated with Mesmerism.
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Swedenborgism.
(c) Scottish Baptism.
(d) Catholicism.

5. William James believed that there were always more solutions to a project than a single person could create, which led to the idea of ___________.
(a) Scientific Monism.
(b) Polygenism.
(c) Scientific Pluralism.
(d) Polytheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though he had no formal education in either, ___________ taught psychology and philosophy at Harvard.

2. _________ believed that laws were tools used by judges to set guidelines but were not actual and definitive.

3. The Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.

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

5. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.

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