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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The new organization developed by Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell had thirty-one investigations of ____________.
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Sexual harrassment.
(c) Malpractice.
(d) Wrongful termination.

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

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

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 When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Dewey studied ________ philosophy under Morris while studying at Johns Hopkins.
(a) Sophic.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Hegelian.
(d) Aristotelian.

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

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

13. In 1903, James published a book entitled _________.
(a) Studies of Logical Theory.
(b) The Will to Believe.
(c) The Origin of the Species.
(d) The Varieties of Religious Experience.

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

15. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.
(a) The lower class.
(b) The unions.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) The upper class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dewey believed that prejudice was just a phase that a society needed to go through in order to get to the new societal ________.

2. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.

3. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.

4. In 1918 a new political party called _________ was created by Melusina Fay Pierce.

5. This new organization was sold to ___________ stating that it protected university and college professors from being terminated for differing thoughts.

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