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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the North, people were split between the Abolitionists and the _________.
(a) Segregationists.
(b) Pro-slavery faction.
(c) Populists.
(d) Unionists.

2. In 1854 __________ published a two-book set entitled Types of Mankind asserting the supremacy of the white race.
(a) Nott and James.
(b) Nott and Agassiz.
(c) Nott and Glidden.
(d) Agassiz and Glidden.

3. After teaching high school in Pennsylvania, John Dewey enrolled at _________ in 1882.
(a) Lawrence Scientific School.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

4. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.
(a) Awakening.
(b) Great Second Awakening.
(c) Civil War.
(d) Transcendentalist Movement.

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

6. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.
(a) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(b) William James.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) George Glidden.

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

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

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

10. 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) Abolitionism.
(b) Antagonism.
(c) Separatism.
(d) Pragmatism.

11. Charles Pierce wrote about the Metaphysical Club _______ years after it took place.
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

12. The Civil War caused the beliefs of previous times to be __________.
(a) Respected.
(b) Embraced.
(c) Discredited.
(d) Promoted.

13. ____________ lobbied Congress to help create a National Academy of Science.
(a) Charles Pierce and Louis Agassiz.
(b) Josiah Nott and Benjamin Pierce.
(c) Benjamin Pierce and Louis Agassiz.
(d) Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz.

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

15. __________ believed that results not logic created beliefs.
(a) Henry Buckle.
(b) Charles Eliot.
(c) William James.
(d) Chauncy Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ published many newspaper columns and books through donations or self-publication.

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

3. Wright believed that ___________ is the difference between facts and values.

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. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.

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