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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.
(a) 16.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

2. The military leaders during the time of the civil war were often chosen due to __________.
(a) Battle prowess.
(b) Political influence.
(c) Demonstrated leadership.
(d) Military training.

3. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) Raleigh.

4. Holmes joined the army because he felt that it was his duty to fight for what he believed. What was his first battle?
(a) The Battle at Ball's Bluff.
(b) The Battle of Bull Run.
(c) The Battle of Chancelorsville.
(d) The Battle of Antietam.

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Atlantic Monthly.
(b) Harvard Magazine.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) Boston Gazette.

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

7. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.
(a) Democrats.
(b) Conscious Whigs.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Separationists.

8. ____________ began with a drunken man hallucinating in a tavern. This religion later became affiliated with Mesmerism.
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Scottish Baptism.
(d) Swedenborgism.

9. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.
(a) Joseph Torrey.
(b) Henry Torrey.
(c) Sarah Paine Torrey.
(d) John Dewey.

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

11. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.
(a) Educational.
(b) Occupational.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Religious.

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

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

14. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.
(a) William James.
(b) Alonzo Potter.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Benjamin Pierce.

15. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.
(a) Burlington philosophy.
(b) Liberal individualism.
(c) Montpelier philosophy.
(d) Pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dartmouth University started as an attempt to build a school for ____________.

2. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.

3. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.

4. After Holmes returned to the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg, there was a new regiment created of black volunteers, the __________.

5. In 1854 __________ published a two-book set entitled Types of Mankind asserting the supremacy of the white race.

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