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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 6 | Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the North, people were split between the Abolitionists and the _________.
(a) Unionists.
(b) Pro-slavery faction.
(c) Segregationists.
(d) Populists.

2. _________ 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) Chauncy Wright.
(d) Charles Eliot.

3. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a(n) _________.
(a) Populist.
(b) Unionist.
(c) Segregationist.
(d) Abolitionist.

4. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.
(a) The unions.
(b) The lower class.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) The upper class.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.

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

4. Pierce believed that the universe was constantly evolving and trying to reach ___________.

5. __________ created the method of least squares in order to find the true location of the object.

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