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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.
(a) The equality of all people.
(b) Good word of the Bible.
(c) Superiority of white people.
(d) The evils of slavery.

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

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

8. The philosophy that began to emerge with the formation of the Metaphysical Club is known as_________.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Evolutionism.
(c) Monogenism.
(d) Polygenism.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 12 years out of school, Holmes wrote an article based on ________, the idea that if one does his job correctly and with honor, one should be fulfilled.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Jobbism.
(c) Occupationism.
(d) Separatism.

15. __________ created the method of least squares in order to find the true location of the object.
(a) Carl Gauss.
(b) Pierre Laplace.
(c) Benjamin Pierce.
(d) Adrien Legendre.

Short Answer Questions

1. In September of 1876 __________ died of an overdose at the age of 46.

2. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.

4. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.

5. ________ took statistics from numbers to people and created social mechanics.

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