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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the expedition to Brazil returned, _________ gave lectures about evidence of the Ice Age in Brazil.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) William James.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) Elisabeth Agassiz.

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

3. Henry James Sr. preached _________ and stated that there was no room for morality.
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Slavery as a virtue.
(c) Free love.
(d) Atheism.

4. The Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.
(a) Cotton.
(b) Whaling.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Textile.

5. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.
(a) Josiah Nott.
(b) George Glidden.
(c) Samuel Cartwright.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

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

7. Benjamin and Charles caused fear in the United States because of their use of ___________ in the trial.
(a) Witnesses.
(b) Signatures.
(c) Fear tactics.
(d) Statistics.

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

9. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.
(a) The Bell Curve Law.
(b) The Law of Probability.
(c) The Law of Statistics.
(d) The Law of Errors.

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

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

12. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.
(a) Wendell Phillips.
(b) Dred Scott.
(c) John Brown.
(d) Lovejoy.

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

14. Charles Pierce had an addiction to ______ that started due to a childhood prescription for facial neuralgia.
(a) Morphine.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Opium.
(d) Heroin.

15. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.
(a) Conservative individualism.
(b) Montpelier philosophy.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Burlington philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.

2. Henry James Sr. rebelled against his father and took up religion in the form of ___________.

3. The dominant political party during the time of the Civil War was ________.

4. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.

5. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.

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