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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.
(a) Harvard Law School.
(b) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) The Coast Service.

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

3. William James created ___________ and brought it to the public for Charles Pierce.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Monogenism.
(c) Pragmatics.
(d) Pragmaticism.

4. Which amendment was created to give black people more rights and to protect them after the Civil War?
(a) Second.
(b) Twentieth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) Sixteenth.

5. Dewey and Holmes focused on the rights of _________ instead of the rights of the individual.
(a) Men.
(b) Laws.
(c) Government.
(d) Society.

6. James compared Pluralism to forms of government saying that it was more like __________.
(a) An empire.
(b) A feudal system.
(c) A federal republic.
(d) A kingdom.

7. Morris returned to the University of Michigan and _______ followed him.
(a) William James.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Charles Pierce.
(d) Francis Parker.

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

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

10. _________ left the University of Michigan at 35 to become the chair at the University of Chicago.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) William James.
(c) G. Stanley Hall.
(d) John Dewey.

11. Dewey offered to combine the Laboratory school and ________ elementary in order to keep the funding of a wealthy patron.
(a) Chicago.
(b) Rockefeller.
(c) Parker.
(d) Washington.

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

13. Charles Pierce did not like James' or Dewey's version of his work and thus attempted to bring forth his own form called __________.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Monogenism.
(c) Pragmaticism.
(d) Pragmatics.

14. ___________ did not believe he was a pragmatist, even though he held many of the same beliefs.
(a) Benjamin Pierce.
(b) W.E.B. Dubois.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) Oliver Holmes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kallen was asked to prepare __________ manuscripts for publication in 1915.

2. _________ sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932.

3. Dewey had to fight for funding in his department. He tried to get funding for the laboratory by _________.

4. When his salary was less than expected John Dewey decided to _________.

5. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.

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