The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Louis Menand
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Louis Menand
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 12 Chicago, Section 4 | Part 4, Chapter 12 Chicago, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.
(a) Henry James Sr.
(b) Louis Agassiz.
(c) William James.
(d) Samuel George Morton.

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

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

4. 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 Abbott.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Charles Lowell.

5. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.
(a) Was a fact of nature.
(b) Is related to statistics.
(c) Serves a purpose.
(d) Is based on laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. The philosophy that began to emerge with the formation of the Metaphysical Club is known as_________.

2. Henry James had a relationship with _________ who like him disliked institutionalization and systems.

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

4. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.

5. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.

(see the answer key)

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