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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) Destroyed.
(b) Redefined.
(c) Broken up.
(d) Integrated.

2. Hall gave lectures to educators concerning an educational system created by _________.
(a) William James.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Francis Parker.
(d) George Morris.

3. The authority of _________ characterizes pre-modern societies, but not modern societies.
(a) Nurture.
(b) Environment.
(c) Heredity.
(d) Chance.

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

5. Holmes greatest achievement was __________.
(a) His Civil War accomplishments.
(b) The lecture series 'The Common Law.'
(c) A series of books on monogenism.
(d) His teaching appointments.

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

7. ___________ was only given if there was a chance it could be taken away, according to Dewey and Holmes.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Money.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

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

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

10. Dewey had to fight for funding in his department. He tried to get funding for the laboratory by _________.
(a) Making it tuition based.
(b) Investing his own money.
(c) Applying for federal grants.
(d) Borrowing money from Rockefeller.

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

12. Many of the universities of the time were using the law enacted by ____________.
(a) The President.
(b) The Judicial Branch.
(c) Congress.
(d) The Executive Branch.

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

14. In May 1918, Congress amended the law to become the Espionage and _________ Act.
(a) Sedition.
(b) Educational.
(c) Financial.
(d) Traitor.

15. Chicago at the time was in the middle of the _________ strike.
(a) Pullman.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Pushman.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. The new organization developed by Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell had thirty-one investigations of ____________.

2. After Hall discredited several candidates for the professor of philosophy position, one was finally hired in __________.

3. In many societies in the early 20th Century the concept of ________ began to appear.

4. President Gillman later fired all ________ faculty from the school effectively removing anyone teaching philosophy.

5. What was the organization that Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell created in 1915, similar to the AMA or the ABA?

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