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

Multiple Choice Questions

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 When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.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

2. 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) It is many dimensional.
(d) Things are connected loosely.

3. William James believed that people have beliefs because the object of belief has been shown to have _________.
(a) Value.
(b) Consequences.
(c) Colors.
(d) Purpose.

4. In the end Gillman ended up hiring ________ of James' suggestions for new faculty positions.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

5. Pierce used __________ daily because of the pain caused by cancer that ravaged his body.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Aspirin.

6. ________ was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his personal problems from the past.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) Francis Parker.
(c) George Morris.
(d) John Dewey.

7. During one of the club meetings _________ read a paper called Design and Chance.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) George Morris.
(d) Francis Parker.

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

9. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.
(a) Harvard University.
(b) University of Edinburgh.
(c) Columbia Univeristy.
(d) University of Chicago.

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

11. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.
(a) Grow.
(b) Learn.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Communicate.

12. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.
(a) Belgium.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

14. Randolph Bourne believed his purpose in life was to find the ____________ in other people's theories and philosophies.
(a) Documentation.
(b) Problems.
(c) Benefits.
(d) Angles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Staff created _______ in the poorest section of Chicago.

2. Cattell was fired from his job for _____________ another professor on his own personal time.

3. University presidents or ____________ did not accept the formation of the American Association of University Professors.

4. _______ used notes to form the Hibbert Lectures which were eventually published in ' A Pluralistic Universe'.

5. Dewey had a different take on stimulus and response that stated _________.

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