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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which person was not a member of the 'Septum'?
(a) Ephraim Gurney.
(b) Chauncy Wright.
(c) Charles Eliot.
(d) Henry Buckle.

3. ___________ disliked immigration and created a society of married women who demanded their husbands pay for housecleaning.
(a) Harriet Melusina Fay.
(b) Hetty Robinson.
(c) Sarah Pierce.
(d) Elizabeth Agassiz.

4. After several political battles the school was administered by _________.
(a) John Wheelock.
(b) Eleazer Wheelock.
(c) The original 12 member board of trustees.
(d) Native Americans.

5. Henry Sr. viewed _________ as he did everything, with a distrust of institutions.
(a) Religion.
(b) Education.
(c) Military.
(d) Government.

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

7. What planet's discovery did Benjamin Pierce call 'a happy accident'
(a) Pluto.
(b) Saturn.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Jupiter.

8. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) William James.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) Josiah Nott.

9. ___________ felt that he was at a disadvantage because he had no formal education.
(a) Henry James Jr.
(b) Wilky James.
(c) Bob James.
(d) William James.

10. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) William James.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

12. _________ believed that laws were tools used by judges to set guidelines but were not actual and definitive.
(a) Charles Eliot.
(b) Nicholas St. John Green.
(c) William James.
(d) Chauncy Wright.

13. Henry James Sr. rebelled against his father and took up religion in the form of ___________.
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Swedenborgian.
(c) Scottish Baptist.
(d) Lutheran.

14. Even though he had no formal education in either, ___________ taught psychology and philosophy at Harvard.
(a) Henry James Sr.
(b) Bob James.
(c) Henry James Jr.
(d) William James

15. William James was an extreme ________ like his father, but disagreed with many of his father's ideals.
(a) Protestant.
(b) Scottish Baptist.
(c) Platonist.
(d) Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ took statistics from numbers to people and created social mechanics.

2. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.

3. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.

4. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.

5. The Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.

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