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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. This new organization was sold to ___________ stating that it protected university and college professors from being terminated for differing thoughts.
(a) The public.
(b) The Peace Corps.
(c) The government.
(d) Rockefeller.

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

4. Modern societies are led by ________ and the procedures and theories that led to modernity.
(a) Chance.
(b) Nature.
(c) Heredity.
(d) Nurture.

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

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

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

8. Dewey believed that prejudice was just a phase that a society needed to go through in order to get to the new societal ________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Whole.
(d) Community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Holmes believed that experiences are governed by society and thus _________.

3. Jane Addams wrote an article comparing the opposing sides in the Pullman strike to __________.

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

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

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