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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ was a Vermont Transcendentalist born in 1859 and was close to being socialist in viewpoint.
(a) Frederick Dewey.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Lucina Dewey.
(d) Archibald Dewey.

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

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

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

5. Holmes was wounded ______ times during the Civil War.
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

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

8. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) New York.
(b) Jamestown.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Boston.

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

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

11. After Holmes returned to the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg, there was a new regiment created of black volunteers, the __________.
(a) 54th Massachusetts.
(b) 45th Massachusetts.
(c) 59th Massachusetts.
(d) 57th Massachusetts.

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

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

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

15. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought by generals Lee and ________.
(a) 'Stonewall Jackson.'
(b) McClellan.
(c) Grant.
(d) Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. After several political battles the school was administered by _________.

2. __________ is the theory stating that races originate from separate sources.

3. _________ founded the Metaphysical Club in 1872 in Cambridge.

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

5. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.

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