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

2. _________ believed that laws were tools used by judges to set guidelines but were not actual and definitive.
(a) William James.
(b) Nicholas St. John Green.
(c) Chauncy Wright.
(d) Charles Eliot.

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

4. 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) Conscious Whigs.
(d) Separationists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.

2. ___________ published many newspaper columns and books through donations or self-publication.

3. Henry Sr. viewed _________ as he did everything, with a distrust of institutions.

4. __________ is the theory stating that races originate from separate sources.

5. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.

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