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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.
(a) Conformers.
(b) Misfits.
(c) Geniuses.
(d) Reformers.

5. Dewey started the laboratory school because he believed that Chicago public schools had a _________ on children.
(a) Negative.
(b) Bias.
(c) Positive.
(d) Depressive.

6. After Hall discredited several candidates for the professor of philosophy position, one was finally hired in __________.
(a) 1856.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1910.

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

8. Pierce used __________ daily because of the pain caused by cancer that ravaged his body.
(a) Morphine.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Aspirin.

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

10. In 1918 a new political party called _________ was created by Melusina Fay Pierce.
(a) Republicans.
(b) Whigs.
(c) Independents.
(d) Hereditary Americans.

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

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

13. Hegel espoused a ________ philosophy which was not in accordance with how James viewed the world.
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Individualistic.
(c) Monistic.
(d) Pluralistic.

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

15. Pierce also believed that humans get their ideas of right and wrong from __________.
(a) Other humans.
(b) God.
(c) Laws.
(d) Internal sources.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ was a good friend of John Dewey and helped him to see her perspective of people through her experience at the house.

2. When cultures define themselves, the eventually need to be ____________.

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

4. ___________ did not believe he was a pragmatist, even though he held many of the same beliefs.

5. In 1903, James published a book entitled _________.

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