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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Students in Dewey's classes were taught by _______.
(a) Reading.
(b) Example.
(c) Observation.
(d) Listening.

6. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) George Morris.
(c) William James.
(d) John Dewey.

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

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

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

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

11. In many societies in the early 20th Century the concept of ________ began to appear.
(a) Elitism.
(b) Xenophobia.
(c) Social Darwinism.
(d) Pragmatism.

12. __________ was created with a grant from a personal estate with direction to create a university.
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Vermont.
(d) Dartmouth College.

13. 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) Learn.
(d) Laugh.

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

15. University presidents or ____________ did not accept the formation of the American Association of University Professors.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Unions.
(c) Congressmen.
(d) Board of trustees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dewey offered to combine the Laboratory school and ________ elementary in order to keep the funding of a wealthy patron.

2. When the schools combined, Dewey appointed _________ to be the principal.

3. Dewey studied ________ philosophy under Morris while studying at Johns Hopkins.

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

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

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