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

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.
(a) Good word of the Bible.
(b) The evils of slavery.
(c) The equality of all people.
(d) Superiority of white people.

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

4. __________ talked the Belgian government into building an observatory and sending him to Paris to get training.
(a) Joseph Fourier.
(b) Henry Thomas Buckle.
(c) Adolph Quetlet.
(d) Charles Pierce.

5. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.
(a) Sarah Paine Torrey.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Henry Torrey.
(d) Joseph Torrey.

Short Answer Questions

1. President Gillman later fired all ________ faculty from the school effectively removing anyone teaching philosophy.

2. Charles Pierce taught a ________ class in the fall of 1883 and spring of 1884 during which he announced the formation of the Metaphysical Club.

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

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

5. After Holmes returned to the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg, there was a new regiment created of black volunteers, the __________.

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