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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holmes believed that experiences are governed by society and thus _________.
(a) Stay the same over time.
(b) Have no effect on the individual.
(c) Change over time.
(d) Are infallible.

2. President Gillman later fired all ________ faculty from the school effectively removing anyone teaching philosophy.
(a) Full-Time.
(b) Metaphysical Club.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Part-Time.

3. When his salary was less than expected John Dewey decided to _________.
(a) Take another position.
(b) Move out of the country.
(c) Teach only during the fall.
(d) Ask for more money.

4. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.
(a) Things progess in an ultimate and absolute way.
(b) It is many directional.
(c) It is many dimensional.
(d) Things are connected loosely.

5. Pierce believed that the universe was constantly evolving and trying to reach ___________.
(a) Absolute truth.
(b) Relatvie truth.
(c) Equilibrium.
(d) Chaos.

6. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.
(a) William James.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) Charles Pierce.
(d) John Dewey.

7. _________ sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932.
(a) John Dewey.
(b) William James.
(c) Benjamin Pierce.
(d) Oliver Holmes.

8. Dewey and Holmes focused on the rights of _________ instead of the rights of the individual.
(a) Men.
(b) Society.
(c) Government.
(d) Laws.

9. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.
(a) Communicate.
(b) Learn.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Grow.

10. An individual could not have a right or a freedom unless ___________ as a whole had it first.
(a) The President.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Society.

11. Holmes argued that judges used __________ and then find precedents to explain their decisions.
(a) Codes.
(b) Others opinions.
(c) Their experience.
(d) Juries.

12. During Holmes' first semester teaching at Harvard Law School he was offered a seat on__________.
(a) The Faculty Chair.
(b) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.
(c) The local school board.
(d) The Board of Administrators.

13. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.
(a) Columbia Univeristy.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Edinburgh.
(d) University of Chicago.

14. The first president of the University of Chicago was_________.
(a) William James.
(b) William Rainey Harper.
(c) George Herbert Mead.
(d) John Dewey.

15. __________ is the idea that people come at life from different places, and understand the world in different ways.
(a) Individualism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Singularism.
(d) Separatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.

2. Dewey believed in the integration of race to create unforeseeable ___________ for all races.

3. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.

4. In the end Gillman ended up hiring ________ of James' suggestions for new faculty positions.

5. Cultural ______________ seemed to foster prejudice and discrimination, though Kallen used the phrase in a book in 1924.

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