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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _________ was a good friend of John Dewey and helped him to see her perspective of people through her experience at the house.
(a) Ellen Gates Starr.
(b) Florence Kelley.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) George Herbert Mead.

3. James felt that pragmatism was the philosophy of __________.
(a) Being practical.
(b) Decision making.
(c) Complexity.
(d) Simplicity.

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

5. During one of the club meetings _________ read a paper called Design and Chance.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) Charles Pierce.
(c) George Morris.
(d) John Dewey.

6. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) George Morris.
(d) William James.

7. All of the following historical events played a role for William James becoming more active politically except ________.
(a) Lynchings in the South.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) Suppression of the Phillipine Independence Movement.
(d) Publication of 'The Will to Believe.'

8. In 1908 'The Process of Government' was published by __________.
(a) Anthony Bentley.
(b) Franz Boas.
(c) William James.
(d) John Dewey.

9. When the schools combined, Dewey appointed _________ to be the principal.
(a) Parker.
(b) Anita Blaine.
(c) His wife.
(d) Rockefeller.

10. When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) University of Chicago.

11. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.
(a) Irrational.
(b) Counter-intuitive.
(c) Empty.
(d) Instinctive.

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

13. Jane Addams wrote an article comparing the opposing sides in the Pullman strike to __________.
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet and his father.
(c) King Lear and Ophelia,
(d) Polonius and Hamlet.

14. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.
(a) Pullman.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Pushman.
(d) Morris.

15. ________ was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his personal problems from the past.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Charles Pierce.
(d) George Morris.

Short Answer Questions

1. The university presidents still gave __________ and fired faculty for not expressing the views of the college.

2. Pierce believed that the universe was constantly evolving and trying to reach ___________.

3. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.

4. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.

5. __________ was created with a grant from a personal estate with direction to create a university.

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