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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.
(a) Phillips.
(b) Lovejoy.
(c) Holmes Sr.
(d) James.

2. 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 of Chancelorsville.
(b) The Battle of Bull Run.
(c) The Battle of Antietam.
(d) The Battle at Ball's Bluff.

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

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

5. William James spent a great deal of time and energy on being indecisive, but he was able to use it to create the idea of _________.
(a) Antagonism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Abolitionism.
(d) Separatism.

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

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

8. _________ founded the Metaphysical Club in 1872 in Cambridge.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(c) Charles Pierce.
(d) William James.

9. Many Southerners and Northerners found a problem with _________ because it seemed to contradict Genesis.
(a) Polygenism.
(b) Monogenism.
(c) Polytheism.
(d) Types of Mankind.

10. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.
(a) Swedenborgian.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Scottish Baptist.

11. ________ took statistics from numbers to people and created social mechanics.
(a) Adrien Legendre.
(b) Carl Gauss.
(c) Pierre Laplace.
(d) Benjamin Pierce.

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

13. Holmes' experiences during the war led him to believe that imposing one's beliefs would always lead to __________.
(a) Slavery.
(b) Peace.
(c) Change.
(d) Violence.

14. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.
(a) Harvard Magazine.
(b) New Yorker.
(c) North American Review.
(d) Atlantic Review.

15. Benjamin and Charles Pierce were called to verify the authenticity of a will document produced by __________.
(a) Sylvia Ann Howland.
(b) Edward Mott Robinson.
(c) Isaac Howland Jr.
(d) Hetty Robinson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.

3. ___________ felt that he was at a disadvantage because he had no formal education.

4. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.

5. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.

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