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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. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Biology.

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

3. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

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

5. William James and Charles Pierce became friends while they were both attending ___________.
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Lawrence Scientific School.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Cambridge University.

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.

2. When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.

3. _________ founded the Metaphysical Club in 1872 in Cambridge.

4. Chicago at the time was in the middle of the _________ strike.

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

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