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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) Making fun of.
(b) Calling.
(c) Sending a letter.
(d) Talking to.

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

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

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

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

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

7. The United States was currently in the middle of a ________ and many employers were cutting wages.
(a) Recession.
(b) Election.
(c) Economic boom.
(d) Depression.

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

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

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

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

12. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.
(a) Things progess in an ultimate and absolute way.
(b) It is many directional.
(c) Things are connected loosely.
(d) It is many dimensional.

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

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

15. Pierce also believed that humans get their ideas of right and wrong from __________.
(a) Other humans.
(b) Laws.
(c) Internal sources.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.

2. In many societies in the early 20th Century the concept of ________ began to appear.

3. During one of the club meetings _________ read a paper called Design and Chance.

4. Holmes argued that judges used __________ and then find precedents to explain their decisions.

5. Modern societies are led by ________ and the procedures and theories that led to modernity.

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