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

2. Wright believed that ___________ is the difference between facts and values.
(a) Positivism.
(b) Negativism.
(c) Constructivism.
(d) Pragmatism.

3. William James spent a great deal of time and energy on being indecisive, but he was able to use it to create the idea of _________.
(a) Separatism.
(b) Abolitionism.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Pragmatism.

4. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.
(a) Louis Agassiz.
(b) Henry James Jr.
(c) William James.
(d) Samuel George Morton.

5. After Holmes returned to the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg, there was a new regiment created of black volunteers, the __________.
(a) 59th Massachusetts.
(b) 57th Massachusetts.
(c) 45th Massachusetts.
(d) 54th Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Holmes greatest achievement was __________.

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

3. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.

4. The organizer of the American Railroad Union was arrested ________.

5. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.

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