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. Henry James had a relationship with _________ who like him disliked institutionalization and systems.
(a) Charles Lowell.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) Henry Abbott.

2. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.
(a) 20 days.
(b) 40 days.
(c) 30 days.
(d) 60 days.

3. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.
(a) Serves a purpose.
(b) Is based on laws.
(c) Is related to statistics.
(d) Was a fact of nature.

4. Holmes was not present for the Battle of Fredericksburg and viewed it as _________.
(a) Racist.
(b) A great success.
(c) A waste of humanity.
(d) Proof of his convictions.

5. Dewey started the laboratory school because he believed that Chicago public schools had a _________ on children.
(a) Depressive.
(b) Negative.
(c) Positive.
(d) Bias.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ wrote a book called 'The Will to Believe' and dedicated it to Charles Pierce.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.

3. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.

4. Many Southerners and Northerners found a problem with _________ because it seemed to contradict Genesis.

5. Targets of the Ku Klux Klan at the beginning of World War I included all of the following except __________.

(see the answer key)

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