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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What planet's discovery did Benjamin Pierce call 'a happy accident'
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Saturn.

2. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.
(a) The Law of Probability.
(b) The Bell Curve Law.
(c) The Law of Errors.
(d) The Law of Statistics.

3. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.
(a) Lovejoy.
(b) Phillips.
(c) Holmes Sr.
(d) James.

4. ____________ lobbied Congress to help create a National Academy of Science.
(a) Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz.
(b) Josiah Nott and Benjamin Pierce.
(c) Charles Pierce and Louis Agassiz.
(d) Benjamin Pierce and Louis Agassiz.

5. The philosophy that began to emerge with the formation of the Metaphysical Club is known as_________.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Evolutionism.
(c) Monogenism.
(d) Polygenism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.

2. ___________ felt that he was at a disadvantage because he had no formal education.

3. ___________ disliked immigration and created a society of married women who demanded their husbands pay for housecleaning.

4. Holmes was not present for the Battle of Fredericksburg and viewed it as _________.

5. Dartmouth University started as an attempt to build a school for ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Civil War allow Congress to create as it became more active than any other time in history?

2. How did the Abolitionists view the Unionists during the period of the Civil War?

3. What was Webster's argument in terms of the legal battle between the two Darmouths which arose?

4. Why did William Henry Sr. always feel that he was at a disadvantage in his life?

5. Why did Marsh dislike the idea of liberal individualism when it was created by Locke?

6. How did Benjamin Pierce view mathematics and its place within the scientific community?

7. What did Quetlet use the method of least squares for when he was doing his own research?

8. What was in the essay that James read by a French philosopher which helped him to gain insight into two things?

9. Why did many of the Civil War soldiers felt their friends and family were dying during the war?

10. Though John Dewey was often considered to be a liberal, what were some of his true views?

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