The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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 G

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 5, Chapter 15 Freedoms, Section 3 | Part 5, Chapter 15 Freedoms, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ believed there could be no individual without society.
(a) James Marsh.
(b) William James.
(c) John Locke.
(d) John Wheelock.

2. All of the following historical events played a role for William James becoming more active politically except ________.
(a) Suppression of the Phillipine Independence Movement.
(b) Publication of 'The Will to Believe.'
(c) Lynchings in the South.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

3. Dewey offered to combine the Laboratory school and ________ elementary in order to keep the funding of a wealthy patron.
(a) Chicago.
(b) Parker.
(c) Rockefeller.
(d) Washington.

4. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.
(a) The Ice Age.
(b) The dinosaurs.
(c) The wooly mammoth.
(d) Electrons.

5. In September of 1876 __________ died of an overdose at the age of 46.
(a) Charles Eliot.
(b) William James.
(c) Chauncy Wright.
(d) Nicholas St. John Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bentley and Dewey published a book called "Knowing the Known" giving American society knowledge about________.

2. During Holmes' first semester teaching at Harvard Law School he was offered a seat on__________.

3. Pierce reviewed _________ written by John Dewey and was completely disgusted.

4. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.

5. When cultures define themselves, the eventually need to be ____________.

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