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.

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. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Conservative Individualism.
(c) Transcendent Unity.
(d) Liberal Individualism.

2. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.
(a) John Brown.
(b) Wendell Phillips.
(c) Lovejoy.
(d) Dred Scott.

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

4. The philosophy that began to emerge with the formation of the Metaphysical Club is known as_________.
(a) Monogenism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Polygenism.
(d) Evolutionism.

5. After teaching high school in Pennsylvania, John Dewey enrolled at _________ in 1882.
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) Lawrence Scientific School.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

2. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.

3. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.

4. One member of the Metaphysical Club was Chauncy Wright also known as the local ____________.

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

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