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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cattell was fired from his job for _____________ another professor on his own personal time.
(a) Calling.
(b) Making fun of.
(c) Sending a letter.
(d) Talking to.

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

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

4. G. Stanley Hall studied New Psychology and received a PhD under _________ at Harvard.
(a) William James.
(b) Francis Parker.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) George Morris.

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

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 When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.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

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

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

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

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

11. During Holmes' first semester teaching at Harvard Law School he was offered a seat on__________.
(a) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.
(b) The Board of Administrators.
(c) The Faculty Chair.
(d) The local school board.

12. Daniel Gillman, the first president of Johns Hopkins wanted ________ to teach philosophy at the school.
(a) George Morris.
(b) Charles Pierce.
(c) William James.
(d) G. Stanley Hall,

13. When cultures define themselves, the eventually need to be ____________.
(a) Integrated.
(b) Redefined.
(c) Broken up.
(d) Destroyed.

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

15. _________ sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932.
(a) Benjamin Pierce.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) William James.
(d) Oliver Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________, after initially giving up his identity as a Jew, regained his religion and came up with the dual identity theory.

2. Hegel espoused a ________ philosophy which was not in accordance with how James viewed the world.

3. Dewey believed in the integration of race to create unforeseeable ___________ for all races.

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

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

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