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. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.
(a) William James.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Charles Lowell.
(d) Henry Abbott.

2. University presidents or ____________ did not accept the formation of the American Association of University Professors.
(a) Congressmen.
(b) Unions.
(c) Board of trustees.
(d) Teachers.

3. The method of least squares was used by Charles in his research for the Coast Survey which led to being considered one of the best ____________
(a) Meteorologists.
(b) Statisticians.
(c) Astronomers.
(d) Politicians.

4. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.
(a) The Coast Service.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) Harvard Law School.
(d) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.

5. Bentley and Dewey published a book called "Knowing the Known" giving American society knowledge about________.
(a) American born men.
(b) Emigrants.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) American born women.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.

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 When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.

3. Randolph Bourne believed his purpose in life was to find the ____________ in other people's theories and philosophies.

4. William James believed that there were always more solutions to a project than a single person could create, which led to the idea of ___________.

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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