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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When cultures define themselves, the eventually need to be ____________.
(a) Redefined.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Integrated.
(d) Broken up.

2. Charles Pierce taught a ________ class in the fall of 1883 and spring of 1884 during which he announced the formation of the Metaphysical Club.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Logic.

3. Dewey believed in the integration of race to create unforeseeable ___________ for all races.
(a) Possibilities.
(b) Mourning.
(c) Troubles.
(d) Chaos.

4. Cultural ______________ seemed to foster prejudice and discrimination, though Kallen used the phrase in a book in 1924.
(a) Marxism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Errors.
(d) Missteps.

5. Bentley and Dewey published a book called "Knowing the Known" giving American society knowledge about________.
(a) American born men.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Emigrants.
(d) American born women.

6. The organizer of the American Railroad Union was arrested ________.
(a) Two times.
(b) Three times.
(c) One time.
(d) Four times.

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

8. _______ used notes to form the Hibbert Lectures which were eventually published in ' A Pluralistic Universe'.
(a) William James.
(b) Charles Pierce.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

9. Dewey had a different take on stimulus and response that stated _________.
(a) They were dependent on each other.
(b) They were difficult concepts.
(c) They were not necessary for studying behavior.
(d) They needed to be studied separately.

10. In the end Gillman ended up hiring ________ of James' suggestions for new faculty positions.
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

11. One of the problems of Pragmatism is that it does not take into account _________.
(a) Religious interests.
(b) Social interests.
(c) Individual interests.
(d) Governmental interests.

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

13. Holmes and James ________ after their marriages.
(a) Went their separate ways.
(b) Wrote a book together.
(c) Taught at the same university.
(d) Became good friends.

14. What was the organization that Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell created in 1915, similar to the AMA or the ABA?
(a) NAACP.
(b) PETA.
(c) AAUP.
(d) UAW.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.

2. Dewey believed that prejudice was just a phase that a society needed to go through in order to get to the new societal ________.

3. Daniel Gillman, the first president of Johns Hopkins wanted ________ to teach philosophy at the school.

4. The first president of the University of Chicago was_________.

5. Dewey studied ________ philosophy under Morris while studying at Johns Hopkins.

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